Reply #287: That IS hilarious....

[MrBenchley]

"To bring out the canard that all of us free speech advocates actually LIKE what despicable people say"
In that case, I'm sure you'll be happy to show us all the many instances in which progressive "free speech advocates" spoke out against racism in these games.

"t is also the right of people who don't mind that type of stuff to be used on their own servers to allow that speech if they want"
Gee, no shit. And it's also the right of people to point out that those folks don't mind racism and bigotry in the slightest. Just as it's also the right of people to point out that some of these games encourage racism or contain racist content themselves...again, without a peep of complaint from our progressive gamers, it seems.

"From a practical standpoint, ISPs, telephone companies, and designers of all programs that help you go online are NOT responsible for the content that OTHERS produce."
Why not? I'd certainly argue that there's a balance to be made between people's freedoms--and that the right of people to live free of harassment and abuse outweighs the right of people to harass and abuse them verbally. To try and pretend that ISPs and game designers hold no responsibility for the hate speech they engender and allow to occur is sophistry in defense of irresponsibility.