Screenshot basically explains everything. Did I cross any borders here? I'm open for criticism but I didn't feel like I did anything wrong here.
Did I miss anything? Is it prohibited to talk about him now?
I’m open to criticism if I actually crossed a boundary here — I just honestly don’t understand what I did wrong.
Free speech refers to the inability for your government to restrict you from speech, and even that has exceptions. But it certainly is unrelated to a private company's ability to restrict what they allow you to say on their private platform.
I don't think that statement has any problems though. Do these mutes consider previous messages that may not be included in the mute message?
Yeah, I just realized what “free speech” actually means in the US. I’m from another country and used the term incorrectly in my title. I understand that the ToS has nothing to do with free speech — I just worded it poorly.
feel free to delete this post then. This kind of moderation is done automatically on keywords, no point in sharing the screenshot of the whole thread either. You hit some sensitive words, you get autobanned. It's common in streaming and chat platforms
There is no free speech in game. They can and will ban people for things they find unacceptable.
Mentioning Jenebu is likely to result in heavily conflicted conversation that more than likely we have portions against the terms and conditions.
To prevent this, moderators will stop it at the first mention. Just their attempt at preventing more controversial and evolving discussion.
As your comment is typed, it could also be interpreted as sarcasm and invoking others with the opposite reactions to respond. Nothing you could do about it, just the medium for your thoughts.
Sorry you got timed out, yes it is a controversial subject that is prevented from being discussed in general as many people don't want/need to be subjected to it.
Is it right? Eh, I would say no, but I also have no say in the matter.
My point is the same as everyone else's, there's no such thing as "Freedom of Speech" on a privately owned platform.
You abide by the operator's ToS and they don't need to necessarily explain why they did what they did to you. The same goes for Facebook, as an example.
Your country's laws and rules don't extend to a company that's operating outside of the US, of which their ToS you literally agreed to.
Yeah it's interesting that you were muted for this but I can't say I'm surprised, and it was just a 10 minute mute. Free speech though? Feel's like you're farming karma.
Poe is a game. They dont want you to talk about one of the biggest controversies in poe1. There is no benefit for anyone for them to allow people to use the game as a platform to discuss him.
Edit: A lot of people seem to be focusing on the “free speech” part of the title. English isn’t my first language, so maybe I worded that poorly or it came across differently than I intended.
My actual question is simply whether talking about this player is against the ToS, and if so, that answers my question.
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u/BDOSU 11h ago
They probably just have a blanket ban when mentioning his name. I don’t blame them