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TehPers@beehaw.org 2 days agoWhile freedom of speech means you can yell whatever racial slurs you want, it doesn’t mean you are free from consequences.
This seems to be the MS stance as well, and they seem unwilling to associate with that kind of speech, so they want to cut that connection off as a consequence.
MS isn’t telling them not to speak. MS is telling them to take their speech somewhere else.
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Microsoft is also cool with their IPs being used to promote ICE. So I don’t know how much water your argument holds…
greybeard@feddit.online 2 days ago
And their tools used to assist genocide.
TehPers@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Mojang as well? Because MS employs hundreds of thousands of employees making their own decisions and owning their own work. I don’t see how Minecraft has anything to do with the poor decisions made on Azure.
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 2 days ago
The fuck does Azure have to do with Microsoft letting ICE use Halo for recruiting?
TehPers@beehaw.org 2 days ago
ICE is using Halo to recruit?
That aside, the fuck does Halo have to do with Mojang? Unless you’re saying it’s the Xbox people as a whole I guess, which makes a lot more sense to me. I saw a bunch of people talking about Palestine and assumed you were just talking about that somehow.
Anyway, none of this really explains to me why they should not be allowed to limit speech on their own platform, regardless of what speech is limited. People can always pack up and go somewhere else. This isn’t the government coming in and arresting some people for having an opinion they don’t like. This is a company coming in and saying they want that speech somewhere else.