Blizzard is censoring harsh words in game now

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1951

This is such a poor attempt at fearmongering.

Any city has its avenue of shady areas. It doesn’t matter if it’s left-leaning or not. Much like how anyone can take the nicer part of any city and skew the narrative to make it look pleasant, you can take any shadier part and skew it to make it look like a dump. There is no single city in the United States that is wholly a dumpster fire or a utopian society. They’re always a hodgepodge of different avenues of reality because they’re so large.

Issues like this extend far and above political spectrums. This is an issue with cities experiencing intense urbanization growth in a short period of time; where there are less jobs available than the amount of people moving within county lines. When this happens, any city can fall victim to homelessness rates and impoverished communities.

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1952

One false positive is not equivalent to not working. It’s not perfect, but it’s still effective. Sometimes our badges at work get demagnetized and we can’t get in the building until we get a new badge from the front desk. My company’s not going to suddenly ditch the badge system because legitimate employees are occasionally inconvenienced. It’s the same with the filters.

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1953

Slippery slope as to what they deem “offensive”. Youth now days has converted common words and it now has double meanings for drugs, “adult workers” etc so where do you draw the line?

1954

I’m just shocked this guy who tirelessly defends using the n-word has friends and guildies who think casually using the n-word is 2tally fine. Shocked!

Imagine pretending the n-word in the context of today could ever be “non-hostile” or non-“malevolent”.

Garlam, I hate to break it to you bc you seem to be in srs denial, but by your own descriptions, it sounds like you’re spending a lotta WoW time with a bunch of racists. :woman_shrugging:

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1955

My, you got awful defensive at having your talking points challenged by other people’s real world experiences.

I am a welder, I was in those cities for work as a customer needed my company to make an on-site modification to our product. So, no, it wasn’t the ritzy areas, nor was it a slum.

I live in the upper mid-west in a small city, the area has a total population of about 20k. Here Republicans outnumber Democrats by almost a 3-1 margin. This is straight up redneck Trumpian Republican territory.

There are still people driving pickups with full sized Trump/Pence flags from all four corners of the truck bed around here. I have had co-workers that actually do use those racist terms that are banned by Blizzard.

The local ordinance calls for the removal of all political campaign signs within seven days after the election, people still have Trump/Pence signs in their yards and on the sides of their homes. (Rules and laws don’t apply to Republicans apparently.)

There hasn’t been an elected Democrat in this area in decades.

Yet, a few years ago the CEO of the area’s biggest employer said during a quarterly business update meeting “We are hiring anyone who can stand up, see lightening, and hear thunder, but we can’t find people that can pass the drug test. I thought the east coast was bad.”

All the emergency personnel here had to be trained to administer and now carry Narcan.

The local homeless shelter is fighting city hall to be able to add more beds as they don’t have the capacity to meet the current demand.

A few years ago the director of the local domestic violence shelter was killed by her ex.

There isn’t a day that goes by that the police blotter in the local paper doesn’t have a drug bust listed and responses to bar brawls and DV incidents.

You don’t get to claim that it is only Democrat controlled territory that has issues, these issues are everywhere. In fact, I would say that it is worse per capita in Republican controlled areas like here.

Call me a liar all you want, it doesn’t change the actual facts that those biased talking points are biased talking points and not the reality of the majority of the areas in question.

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1956

got u: Can you get banned for swearing? - #5 by Perl-anetheron

1957

It’s always amusing when right wingers concern troll about homelessness. They don’t actually care, and never propose any realistic solutions that doesn’t trample on people’s constitutional rights.

Whenever anyone tries to solve the problem with rent controls or UBI, they’ll immediately start screeching about socialism.

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1958

Apparently you’ve never listened to rap music, all kids do now days and imagine how many quote the lyrics they hear…

1959

Care to link a source that actually backs up this statement?

1960

To be fair, runescape did used to have a very overactive censor like over a decade ago

Their story is very plausable

1961

At the n-word.

They’re drawing the line at the n-word.

I find it really hard to believe that anyone genuinely doesn’t agree that that’s a pretty acceptably universal line to draw.

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1962

I just find it… odd. I was able to find guilds that used the word Salut in their title. What do I think is more likely to have happened was a typo that lost the a.

1963

Oh yea they coulda typo’d, but like they really really did have an insane censor for a while lol

I remember getting the word fracking censored back then, it was nuts (its not even remotely that bad anymore now though)

1964

I’m just going to stand over here… watch everyone argue and fight…

and then remind both sides it could be worse.

And then both sides ask me how… I simply state… All words are banned.
And then chuckle as both sides agree that my solution is unacceptable.

Nothing brings unity more than a greater evil… lesson learned from ID4.

1965

I had a few people that I knew that played the game but… it just didn’t look appealing to me. I did see there is some kind of new mobile game coming from the makers of Runescape soon.

1966

Wait until they start removing stuff like /rude and /spit.

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1967

Nah, theyll just remove combat cuz its too violent

Gotta slip this slope hard bro

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1968

Just for clarification, I see a lot of people accidentally fighting two battles in here.

The battle that they perceive: “This is a slippery slope where our government is trying to tell us what to (not) say.” I understand how concerning this would be, but it really isn’t the case here. The government has no part in it, and you are still legally protected under your First Amendment rights. Those aren’t being infringed at all, which I will explain here shortly.

The battle they are fighting: “Blizzard is trying to tell us what words we can use on their platform.” Blizzard is not the government, and words you use through their platform, as in any other part of public society, may have consequences. The First Amendment only protects against legal prosecution for what you say; a private company banning you wouldn’t be covered there.

In short, this really isn’t some sort of governmental step towards censorship or totalitarianism. It’s just a private company choosing what goes through their system.

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1969

Look, if I were to be very honest…while I am not saying I want us to tiptoe towards some kind of brutal government dictatorship, at the same point, for me them doing something to crack down on a racial slur is just a small step in the right direction.

It won’t crack down on all the issues regarding ongoing harassment, gossiping and all kinds of other toxic behavior, if I was to be blunt, the whole situation has become so bad on wow that I am seriously considering changing servers giving another server a go to make a fresh start you know?

But that alone might not be enough to get me back from FF14, I mean don’t get me wrong eventually on FF14 I will run out of new classes to level etc, but that’s still a little while off.

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1970

If just one Slur is being censored then why not censor them all? What about slag that refers to such words that the newer generations use? I don’t have a database there but am curious of how many words there really are.

I think most people are just seeking clarification of what exactly is being censored in chats since we already have a filter.

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