I don't think it's IPs that reddit bans. Maybe ipv6. One reason I think that is even if you use a VPN (for different IP) they can link your accounts and ban them. I'm not sure exactly how they do it; cookies on your machine seem like a likely culprit, but there are lots of evil fingerprinting things that they can do.
Defending freedom from tyranny necessarily requires that you defend people you do not agree with and who you do not like. Anything less and you are not defending freedom, you are on the side of tyranny but too stupid to know it.
Can't tell you how many times I've read here or in c/Gaming, "Valve hasn't done anything to affect MY ability to game yet. Until it hurts ME then I don't have a problem with them."
Same. I think..... probably in 10, 15 years tops it'll primarily be some combo of online-only and microtransactions. As far as multiplayer goes it'll be so moderated that all the things that made multiplayer fun in the 90s and 2000s will be sucked out. Vendor wise, online stores will be heavily curated, games will be routinely censored or deplatformed like that Taiwanese game, and outside activity will probably be common cause to have your accounts on steam/gog/epic/et al locked. This will more than likely be fine as far as the law goes because it's the nature of digitally-delivered games that you're just paying for a license to use them.
I'm not at all hopeful with vidya. Gamers have a long-standing history of being all bark and no bite when it comes to the game companies.
I've never seen a high volume trader banned for wrongthink on steam, but I have seen dozens banned for being involved in scams and/or directly receiving goods from multiple hacked accounts.
Now given the article literally states no-one has ever said he got banned for wrongthink, and this particular dude's from China with a $2mil stock sheet, I'm gonna eyeball some heuristics here and say it's a 90% chance the dude didn't launder some dirty goods well enough and got banned for stealing other people's stuff, not the random blind speculation he said something naughty in chat.
Steam is considered one of the last safe refuges for gamers & there’s plenty of accelerationists who want it to go woke in order to galvanize it’s user base
The Tabletop Sim fiasco summoned all of the jannies to police the game's forum to crush anyone objecting to the dev's decision. Those are paid employees of Valve.
Yes, but it was done because an alphabet person got mad at the overly restrictive moderation of this chat and made the moderation out to be homophobic. The forums exploded into a bunch of memes making fun of alphabet people as a whole and steam jannies went crazy trimming a lot of the comments.
Hmm...
Let's hope Valve did. This is high-way robbery.
Them's litigation numbers right there. 👀
Worse thing is wrongthink on one platform causes you to be deplatformed and banned on other platforms.
Saying wrongthink in twitter can lead you to be banned on twitter and on twitch. Its rediculous.
But Jen Pissaki said that's what needs to happen.
That works accross platforms, but different accounts on the same platform are linked through IP. Just FYI.
If Reddit bans on an IP level, any company can.
I don't think it's IPs that reddit bans. Maybe ipv6. One reason I think that is even if you use a VPN (for different IP) they can link your accounts and ban them. I'm not sure exactly how they do it; cookies on your machine seem like a likely culprit, but there are lots of evil fingerprinting things that they can do.
Chinese hat fag turbo whale gets his comeuppance, and we're supposed to care why?
Defending freedom from tyranny necessarily requires that you defend people you do not agree with and who you do not like. Anything less and you are not defending freedom, you are on the side of tyranny but too stupid to know it.
Can't tell you how many times I've read here or in c/Gaming, "Valve hasn't done anything to affect MY ability to game yet. Until it hurts ME then I don't have a problem with them."
Same. I think..... probably in 10, 15 years tops it'll primarily be some combo of online-only and microtransactions. As far as multiplayer goes it'll be so moderated that all the things that made multiplayer fun in the 90s and 2000s will be sucked out. Vendor wise, online stores will be heavily curated, games will be routinely censored or deplatformed like that Taiwanese game, and outside activity will probably be common cause to have your accounts on steam/gog/epic/et al locked. This will more than likely be fine as far as the law goes because it's the nature of digitally-delivered games that you're just paying for a license to use them.
I'm not at all hopeful with vidya. Gamers have a long-standing history of being all bark and no bite when it comes to the game companies.
Not really. Nothing in the article infers “wrongthink”.
The irony of this gave me haemochromatosis.
I've never seen a high volume trader banned for wrongthink on steam, but I have seen dozens banned for being involved in scams and/or directly receiving goods from multiple hacked accounts.
Now given the article literally states no-one has ever said he got banned for wrongthink, and this particular dude's from China with a $2mil stock sheet, I'm gonna eyeball some heuristics here and say it's a 90% chance the dude didn't launder some dirty goods well enough and got banned for stealing other people's stuff, not the random blind speculation he said something naughty in chat.
Oh no. A Chinese CS:GO “skin trader” was banned.
I am starting to think that only crypto will be capable of not being stolen by politicians if they disagree with your political views
I'm glad there are people who read beyond the title and don't immediately start sperging.
He comes across as a schizo to me, so I just assume I need to second-guess everything he says.
Steam is considered one of the last safe refuges for gamers & there’s plenty of accelerationists who want it to go woke in order to galvanize it’s user base
The Tabletop Sim fiasco summoned all of the jannies to police the game's forum to crush anyone objecting to the dev's decision. Those are paid employees of Valve.
All that resulted was just in-game chat being disabled in a single game.
Yes, but it was done because an alphabet person got mad at the overly restrictive moderation of this chat and made the moderation out to be homophobic. The forums exploded into a bunch of memes making fun of alphabet people as a whole and steam jannies went crazy trimming a lot of the comments.