If you are not there to buy or order something in my shop, yes, I will ask you to leave. I don’t care if you are talking to your friends, take it outside. I don’t think you know what discrimination is…
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slavery being a literal thing back then didn’t help (and also is probably a part of the reason why) it exists.
…Stupid rich people making everything more complicated…
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Lol…I fixed it thanks.
I don’t care what you think about what I know.
I didn’t realize Blizzard was Congress.
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Really? I haven’t noticed
Forum Dev’s normally do a good job of keeping things ok in the forum. I don’t think there is any other way to keep things civilized in the forum. If there ware not people who where mean and start trouble we would not need forum devs. Just my two cents.
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“Freedom of speech” only applies to the government. The government can’t censor your speech.
Individuals and private entities, such as Blizzard, are exempt from this.
It’s kinda crazy that these snowflake loons don’t even understand these laws that they love so much.
In 2022, “muh freeze peach” is just code for “I wanna be a bigot without consequences.”
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Alot of you here are being crybabies for the sole purpose of crying.
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And you are being a crybaby crying about the crybabies. That’s funny.
I love the irony in it, that’s why I do it in the first place
Blizzard’s In-Game Code of Conduct - Blizzard Support (battle.net) well the regulations are EXTREMLY lose, and let players determinate the report is bad, since are players that can’t deal with anything other just report for reporting.
so, the needle in the balance is crazy since now everything is offensive, even saying our team is bad, while losing for a lot of points has been taken as mega offensive and people start rising reports.
when you pass authority to the user they will abuse the power.
there was an experiment were in a jail, they put the prisoners in charge of the jailers/police, and oh boy!!! they needed to abort that, got out of control! extremely fast and hard.
been a game we want the best behavior but should not be in the hands of the users.
anyone with authority will have the ability to abuse it unless there is someone with authority over them interested in them doing their job right.
With that said barring the obvious abuses the report system is decent on the whole
…If you are only talking about the first amendment to the constitution of the US.
It also exists a a concept outside of the US government.
(I’m not picking on you specifically, dozens of people have pointed out the same thing you posted)
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction.
People here currently do have to fear retaliation or censorship if they articulate certain opinions or ideas.
Allowing people to express themselves, for good or bad, whether you like or agree or not, used to be a progressive/liberal concept. Censorship, which used to be strongly opposed by progressives and liberals, is now all the rage. Today, being “mean” puts you on par with murderers and fascists.
Private companies can be for freedom of speech. They can also be against it. Both are within their legal rights. It is up to their customers how big of a deal that is. Expect companies, being profit motivated, to cow-tow to the current societal weather. The current forcast is, “silence people with bad opinions”.
Correct, it has only ever existed as an idea or concept.
Unlimited free speech has never existed, nor should it. It’s pretty easy to give examples of why some speech needs to be constrained.
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I agree with that. A line has to be drawn somewhere. People disagree with where that line should be, so here we are.
There is a difference between a death threat, shouting “Fire!” in a movie theater, and telling somebody you don’t like fat people.
Agreed, but the issue is the people bringing up free speech in regards to internet platforms want their rights to override property rights.
That’s a pretty easy line to point out which should never be crossed.
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Correct. At the end of the day, it is their playground - their rules. The customers will decide ultimately what is acceptable and the company will rise or sink accordingly. My point is only that freedom of speech is a value that individuals hold outside of a government’s constitution.
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Yes, they can.
You can make disputes based on this, but as I said above, it will be after your removal.
You are correct, but people with the fear of retaliation and/or censorship are, by and large, grossly misunderstanding what constitutes retaliation and/or censorship.
No, it isn’t. Stop using Twitter and Tumblr.
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Being a late teen or a young adult male really isn’t an excuse to be an edgy pompous weasel that says whatever thing you want and get away with it. That is really being just as bad as an Umbridge-esque government worker that wants to ban all speech that’s not 100% faux-safe and PC.
I get it, I was a teen boy once too. But still, no excuse.
They might as well learn now rather than later that the real world doesn’t put up with that and there are consequences for the things that you say. HR departments exist, just not a person’s own personal ID. They aren’t just in their living room with their friends even if the safety and convenience of the internet can make a person feel that way, they have agreed to adhere to Blizzard’s terms.
Besides, freedom of speech really does mean … freedom. It doesn’t take much imagination to realize how it can quickly get out of hand morally under the guise of “but we’re free.” Be careful what you wish for and the “freedoms” you’re advocating. Without rules and guidelines, obviously it will turn into a cess pool or like the Yahoo messenger chats in the 90s that was inevitably shut down lol.
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sadly, you are putting the morality on kids with the power to ban people, now the game is not playing wow, is see who you can get ban for the fun of it, to prove you did it, and have a laughter about it.
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