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A regulator, a school, or a federation does not want a dashboard. They want, for one minor, which control was set, by whom, when, and what it blocked. That packet is the product. A screenshot of a settings page is not.
Parliament adopted the child-protection law on 22 April 2026. Gaming platforms pick up duties after a six-month transition, around 1 November 2026. Daily caps and curfews were in the draft. A May legal note says the enacted law does not specify them.
A kernel driver sees more. It also refuses older PCs and asks every player to trust a rootkit. User mode by default, with kernel as a per-event choice, is the position that survives that tradeoff.
FACEIT requires Windows 11 from 14 October 2026. The July 2026 Steam survey still had Windows 10 on 23.30% of machines. Community events have to decide who they are willing to exclude.
In June and August 2026 Riot dropped the old caps on VALORANT and League of Legends community events. The $10,000-a-year prize ceiling is gone. The organiser now carries the rules.
Renown shut down on 30 January 2026 after about 20,000 lifetime matches. Consumer CS2 matchmaking without a distribution budget does not become a business.