Why is GGEZ censored but not the N word?

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Removing the word from the game will lengthen the time it takes for those toxic people to be banned. So you want them to be around for longer than 4 games? Maybe 100? 1000?

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So you think it’s perfectly ok to have that word in the game?

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They enable the censor by default. If you manually go in there and disable it, yes.

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I suggest you renanable your chat filter.

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turns off filter

“I don’t think the system works”

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Next he’ll complain about the toxicity in match voice chat in deathmatch. Only a complete masochist would join that channel.

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Theres literally no reason why slurs should be allowed to be said in chat. Filter or not…

Theres 0 situation in which you say a word like that and it’s not some form of abusive chat

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oh boy

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Problem ignored. Problem continues.

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Kind of werid given they made a statement about institutionalized racism.

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So what is more racist, removing it to stop hate speech, or keeping it in since it has been reclaimed in the afro lexicon?

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Don’t turn off profanity filter and then complain that you’re seeing bad words.

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Report them enough and they’ll get silenced, suspended, banned, etc. I don’t really see toxicity or the sort suddenly disappearing even if censoring every rude word was enforced rather than simply optional.

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Remove it to stop hate speech, if someone wants to use that words as a “joke” with their friends, black or not, blizzard shouldn’t encourage the use of slurs nor should any company.

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Keyword being joke

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They all should be censored, filter or not. A slur goes beyond profanity.

Also Queer isn’t a slur.

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Then crack down harder, increase the punishments, make it more efficient to weed these people out of the community.

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Tell that to the gay men who were in the concentration camps. Some modern LGBT people may choose to reclaim it, but it is a slur to many people, especially gay men

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At the very least I can agree there, if someone uses a racial slur or abbreviations such as ‘kys’, then the system should treat them more aggressively if they’re reported.

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I mean for over a decade now the acronym for the community has included the Q as an umbrella term to refer to the rest of the community and queer wasn’t used especially for gay men, it was used to describe anyone in the community.