I think the other issue with that America has with its Politics… should you choose to vote is that your options are binary. Red or Blue. Republican or Democrat. Without a viable other party - its very easy to fall into an us vs them mentality.
In reality - politics is a spectrum of positions and beliefs… not all of which will fall into a binary system all too well.
As example - Canada has 3 Majorish Parties and 2 specialized Parties on the Federal level.
Progressive Conservatives is their Right Wing
Liberals is the Central-ish (though left leaning) Party
NDP as the Left wing
Green Party as the Enviromental Party
Bloc Quebecois representing French Canadian interests for one Province on the National level.
They all add to the national discussion - and even if everyone is voting party lines you still have more options, than just 2.
But I don’t know how one starts a 3rd party in the states or how much work it would be to get it off the ground.
The Green party is what you are looking for if you are looking for the 3rd party in the states. The question is whether or not you agree with their platform.
Not sure if there’s a limit to how many people you can ignore, but if there is you can chance unignoring some people to free up slots to ignore people who are presently clogging your trade chat. I remember ignoring alot here and there, but don’t remember hitting a limit on ignores. Also might help to move trade and general chat to their own windows and only flip to them when you feel like looking at them.
Here’s a question - why are you exposing your kid to online games where there are any open lines of communication. Why not limit them single player games or games in which the communication is limited to premade options. (Hearthstone as an example).
If the concern is not them being allowed to exposed to outside ideas… why would you pick an online game like WoW in the first place?
Blizzard is not the government, therefore they can censor your speech and take action against you in their private property (their servers) based solely on speech they don’t like.
Blizzard does not owe you a soapbox.
Two entirely separate ideas.
There is no viable third party in the US. We use a first-past-the-post system that prevents anyone but the two major parties from gaining any momentum or actually holding office in all but the most extraordinary cases.
In the vast majority of elections, voting third party is effectively not voting. In almost every other case, voting third party means taking a vote away from the major candidate closest to you on the issues, making it more likely that the major party candidate you most disagree with will win the election.
See Ross Perot in 1992, Jill Stein in 2016. If Perot’s voters, most of whom leaned Republican, had voted Bush, Bush would have won re-election in 92. If Stein’s voters, most of who leaned Democratic, in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania (and only those 3 states) had voted Clinton, Clinton would have won the 2016 election.