Section 18 (2) of the CPA empowers CCPA to issue necessary guidelines to prevent unfair trade practices. In addition, the CCPA can inquire into violations of consumer rights or unfair trade practices, either suo moto or upon receiving a complaint. The Act upholds consumers' rights by prescribing a redressal mechanism against such unfair trade practices. The Consumer Protection Act, 2019 (“CPA”) defines unfair trade practices, including manipulating consumers and exploiting consumers' interest. ![]() The seemingly innocent nature of dark patterns often abuses consumer interests without even them knowing it, leaving them essentially remediless. According to the Guidelines, dark patterns are practices or designs that subvert or impair the consumer autonomy. What are dark patterns and how is it unfair?ĭark pattern is the blanket term defining manipulative techniques used to deceive consumers to take choices they would not have taken otherwise. Hence, the dire need to protect user autonomy and consumer privacy paved way for the current guidelines. In other words, in today's world every consumer would have fallen into the trap of dark patterns at least once. The fact that every single nightmare are the twisted manifestations of fears and other psychological problems may be heavily influenced by the Silent Hill franchise.An average consumer would have come across that red-blinking line saying, “hurry up! only few left” or downloaded at an app thinking it was free only to know later that the free version is expiring in seven days.According to fourth and sixth secret notes (where E mentioned a dollhouse and a cathedral), and Bierce's eighth diary entry (where she encounter giant spiders, rats, and Edgar wearing nothing but a diaper and his goat mask), it's implied that each and everyone who stumbled into the "dark dimension" where Bierce's Ballroom is located has their own different nightmares and sentient manifestations of their own personal demons, brought to life by Malak and presumably the other deal-making demons as their subordinates, since these aforementioned locations and monsters were never encountered by Doug during his journey.Her seventh diary entry, says that this is the exact same Ballroom Bierce had before she ended up here.Malak mentions in Chapter 3 that Bierce's Ballroom is a pocket dimension of hers.Instead, it was revealed that the entire Dark Deception universe takes place in some sort of "dark dimension." Not much is really known about it, but according to Malak it's a place where all evil souls gather, slowly fighting one another to become the "ultimate evil." ![]() However, at the beginning of Bearly Buried, Malak thought that "Heaven & Hell" are nothing more than rather "quaint and amusing" concepts that humanity believed in an afterlife. ![]() It is speculated that Bierce's Ballroom is a purgatory that is located between hell and heaven.There are also pillars located between these portals. ![]() On top of the stairs is a mysterious door with Malak's bloodshot disembodied eye in the center of it.Īround the ballroom are 10 portals that lead to each nightmare. Bierce's Ballroom is a large room with the Ring Altar in the center of the room.
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