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So let me ask you this. Are you going to start banning people for using the words "Faggot" and "Retard", which are also offensive? Or don't those groups deserve the protection of the PC police?
Helz is dogmatic enough on the topic of racism that it has been mistaken for bigotry somewhere else. This is something he feels strongly about.
On other news, that frustration, which is being let out, is projected here due to similarities and has more than likely nothing to do with you personally.
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Voss, frankly, shut your mouth.
You're one of the biggest griefers on the site, you griefed on Oberon for like forever because he attacked you in some game or whatever other reason.
It was literally painful to watch you grief so openly, viciously and for so long. And now you're being hypocritical by projecting your own actions but in reverse? You're fucked up mate.
Edit: him ignoring all your abuse and grief is him "not being anti mods for the sake of it" - ok, cool mate, whatever floats your narcissism.
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I'm against censorship wherever it pops up and I voice my opinions on it, especially when it directly affects me.. and if I'm being honest, this game has lost a lot of its appeal when there are people policing every word that is being said. I have over 3000 games played and what keeps me coming back is the ability to choose my own strategy. That's no longer the case.
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FM XVIII: Kalou (Savage Godfather)
FM XX: Joseph Bertrand (Marshall)
FM XXI: USA (Escort)
FM XV: Whiskey (Whore)
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FM XVIII: Kalou (Savage Godfather)
FM XX: Joseph Bertrand (Marshall)
FM XXI: USA (Escort)
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Exactly. Its like how FB and Twitter banned Trump. Next Twitter removed the President of Nigeria's post. Months back they were banning accounts as fake news for talking about the possibility of Corona being created in a lab, and now we are learning that just might be true. When you stifle free speech its always a slipper slope.
The arcade isn't a protected realm of free speech ;). This also isn't Twitter with millions of millions of users interacting with each other over a wide variety of cultural topics. We're MAYBE hundreds that interact over a small game.
Nice try at false equivalency though. If you don't like being banned for voting staff members in a game, don't play. I trust and applaud the arcade staff's decisions to draw the line on what they choose to moderate. Their efforts keep the game playable for the silent majority of users that don't want this distasteful behavior.
And as an added bonus, we get dipsticks to create these asinine "but mah free speech" threads for others to dunk upon. Maybe that should be one of the aspects we promote here on sc2mafia.com
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FM XX: Joseph Bertrand (Marshall)
FM XXI: USA (Escort)
FM XV: Whiskey (Whore)
Virgin Voss with facts and logic vs CHAD Veliaire unironically dropping the slippery slope fallacy.
I can personally attest to not playing mafia because of the constant racism from the player base. Throughout my time in sc2 I’ve also found many players who have also stopped due to the racism, mostly from playing Cortex with them.
When you eat at a restaurant and the food is bad, you don’t come back. You don’t talk to employees or the management about how the food sucked or whatever. You don’t try and fix the food. You just don’t come back. Have you considered for a moment that there may be a cause and effect link between the fact that lobbies take forever to fill up and the fact that there’s a very vocal minority in the community (and it is well established at this point that you are in a minority) that is actively spamming racist messages and dragging the quality of games down?
Edit: Voss that last post was cringe maybe dont suggest that staff could ban people for voting them
Speaking of which, @Helz , what happened to this?:
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i hope u all realize i am on side veliaire now.
i'm joking
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FM XVIII: Kalou (Savage Godfather)
FM XX: Joseph Bertrand (Marshall)
FM XXI: USA (Escort)
FM XV: Whiskey (Whore)
anyways, who r u all voting in this election:
biden or trump?
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@Veliaire
Not only is your argument about “where do we draw the line” completely irrelevant, it’s also well-documented as a poor argument.
From wikipedia
You are completely ignoring the actual realm of reality here, where the mod team just removes players that are egregiously racist… then stops. There’s zero room to draw parallels anywhere else.The fallacious sense of "slippery slope" is often used synonymously with continuum fallacy, in that it ignores the possibility of middle ground and assumes a discrete transition from category A to category B. In this sense it constitutes an informal fallacy. In a non-fallacious sense, including use as a legal principle, a middle-ground possibility is acknowledged, and reasoning is provided for the likelihood of the predicted outcome. Other idioms for the slippery slope argument are the thin end/edge of the wedge, the camel's nose in the tent, or If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
No private entity is a protected realm of free speech. You are missing the point entirely. The entirety of the internet is owned by private companies. There is no place you can go online that isn't owned by someone. However, the internet is how people communicate.. and when you have thousands of different people telling you what you are and are not allowed to say, that has a negative impact on society as a whole.
For the record I stopped playing the mod due to the rampant racism. Gets tiring.
It also has a negative impact to society to be forced to interact with racist dribble. So one could call the arcade staff here heroes.
Assuming you think banning VIP for more "mundane" things is the next step in this spooky slippery slope, why don't you take this free speech crusade to the Twitter platform? They're obviously worse than us.
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FM XVIII: Kalou (Savage Godfather)
FM XX: Joseph Bertrand (Marshall)
FM XXI: USA (Escort)
FM XV: Whiskey (Whore)
“My ability to name myself money grubbing jew should be protected.”
I know you think you’re a troll but you really only look stupid dude. Trolls typically make people mad. You’re just making people laugh at you.
I guess I conflated my interpretation of your definitions of "the internet" and "society". Maybe the better answer is, if you don't like being told what you can and can't say on the internet, don't use it? It's not up to me to prove that any internet moderation is bad for society. That's up to you. For me, I'm perfectly capable living my life without having to use racist slurs to win a game. I'm also okay not playing a game if I don't agree with the staff's moderation decisions.
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FM XX: Joseph Bertrand (Marshall)
FM XXI: USA (Escort)
FM XV: Whiskey (Whore)
I'm personally having a blast here.
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I believe this would fit as an answer to all kind of similar thread.
Freedom of speech is a right.
Facing consequences for their speaches is a duty that comes with it.
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about a 15% increase in activity in the past month vs. the full period average.
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