Blizzard does not “allow it.” Blizzard just does not monitor the chat and leaves it to players to enforce it by reporting or silencing. I dislike the “silencing” remedy and prefer to leave it to Blizzard whether or not the speech violates any terms and conditions.
Also as a player in-game you have the option to turn chat off or to “ignore” players whose chat offends you.
They are actively fighting the subject for sure, the existence of this thread is just containment. At this point it’s easier than deleting all the other threads that would pop.
I don’t need to be “right” here – we’re all just expressing our opinions, no? I disagree with yours, but I respect your right to voice it.
But talk is talk is talk.
Your opinion is bad tho, that’s all we’re saying. We don’t respectfully disagree.
The not policing there own game and policing what this guy said is hypocritical. They need chat moderators in public chat. If they want to enforce law they need to enforce it and not give it to us to police.
Thread consolidation happens where, as here, there are multiple threads on the same subject. Happened for flight, Guild UI changes, Dungeon XP and the like.
This thread seems quite active, despite being consolidated. Is there a problem here?
I know it might seem like some of us have loose morals, but I actually find people are pretty consistent most of the time.
You just need to understand them and where they are coming from.
Like with me, it might sound contradictory that would support the Chinese military cracking down on unlawful violent protesting, but am not against peaceful protests. It sounds like a contradiction but it’s really not.
It’s like this…
1-I support protests, as in showing a sign saying what you stand for, so long as you not blocking anyone from going about their lawful business.
2-I don’t support protests when they turn violent, as I don’t like people using violence to impose their views on me.
3-I only use violence to stop violence, and that’s the only circumstance where I don’t mind the use of it and I admit I even find it funny. See it’s nice to see a bit of poetic justice and to see violent people get a taste of their own medicine.
None of these values are contradictory or inconsistent with anything. So if Blizzard is supporting a regime that’s cracking down on people behaving violently, good on them.
Oh and by the way, for all these people that saying they love democracy, that’s a load of rubbish. You only like democracy when it suits you. Look at Brexit, all these people accusing Boris Johnson of being anti-democratic, what rubbish, how can it be that a large majority of people voted to leave that EU thing, and there’s all this talk going on for another referendum to be pushed forward, why is that, because these ‘pro-democracy’ people say that there was a vote, but you picked the wrong answer so you need to vote again.
That’s the reality of these democracies, you vote the wrong answer, they will come back with another vote a few years later to get the yes vote through. So for all this accusation of China being anti-democratic, the reality is, that I actually haven’t seen a true democracy in my entire life. The only democracy I know is when it’s me and another person voting on whether we should have pizza or sausages for dinner, and if there’s only two of us, the only way to break the deadlock is to flip a coin and leave it all to chance.
When all these people are saying they are pro-democracy, what exactly is a democracy anyway? Would you support a democracy if 60% of people in the democracy voted for capital punishment, to KILL all the elderly people to free up resources for the younger, if 70% voted to blast your kids off to the moon on a one-way trip, I could go on and on.
The point is, that people are very consistent creatures, they will do anything they can to get their way and will usually stick to their values and beliefs as bizarre and contradictory as it sometimes sound. That’s why democracy is falling apart with that Brexit fiasco, because the vote was inconsistent with the values of the people of a more progressive mindset. So nothing that’s happening is surprising.
Stating the obvious and facts. Something that you don’t seem to like.
Blizzard has never actively monitored in-game chat but is receptive to complaints about it. However, as noted, you have built in remedies in-game.
Someone say my name? Named myself this after they took my poopjoke name despite the dark themes and their own poop joke quests.
Your comment is nonsensical.
so if a protestor threw a stick or a bottle at a fully armored cop, you would be okay with the army coming in to gun them all down? because thats the kind of thing china has done
What’s nonsensical is the desinformation work you have been doing in this thread.
Yes, because the protester acted violently towards a cop, they were violent first. The fact that one is more powerful than the other is irrelevant.
I’ve dealt with people throwing fruit at me in the past when I am just walking minding my own business, so there’s no such thing as excessive force to me to get them out my way if it’s legal to do so. Obviously I’d prefer not to kill the attacker, but to disable them from attacking me again or challenging me again in anyway, absolutely.
I know it sounds tyrannical, but the reality is if you don’t want to make a bear angry, don’t keep poking it.
Honestly, I doubt this will last past the next “news” cycle. But I would be happy to revisit the issue in a couple of weeks or so.
Such as?
2char
Wait. You’re really considering deleting your account over this China/Hong Kong stuff? Do it. I doubt you will though.
I dearly hope you are either
A. Trolling
or
B. Have no position of responsibility anywhere, nor ever will.
Perspective very much needed here.
It actually does. I have the right to insult and trash talk whoever I want and so do you. It’s part of my life liberty and pursuit of happiness. If you don’t like it you don’t have to listen, but I have the right to say it.
Punishing people for speaking their mind falls squarely into the category of Tyranny. The US was founded in direct opposition to the Elite being able to have people beheaded for speaking their mind.
Some of you kids have no idea what road you’re walking down.
You can’t even right now. Try it.