If we had a wow like Auction house. we would have no more need for trade spam.
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If we had a wow like Auction house. we would have no more need for trade spam.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law or rule respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a redress of grievances.
This law is solid stone. Corporations and private citizens alike are required, by law, to respect this unabridged guarentee and it is the responsability of the people to make sure it is enforced.
While i think it's great that your administrative staff is trying to maintain organization and fair gameplay, none of the employees of your comany, or your company as an entity has any right to infringe upon the law. By your own rules no less.
There was a recent incident where an administrator, in game, became over-zealous with his omnipotent banning powers and began to dictate which topics could and could not, respectively, be discussed. By the letter of United States Law, this admin created victims out of every american citizen in participation at the time.
Now, i'm in no way, the kind of person who has the time, dedication or desire to persue such a legal reprisal, but if the liability continues, it's just a matter of time until some rich, aarogant lawer invested person takes a stand.
What does this mean and why am i even saying it? Because sometimes corporations attempt to implement policy or rule that they are not legally entitled. This creates a huge liability for a company and is the leading cause of bankruptcy for small up and coming game design companies.
I would hate, more than anything, to see that happen in this case. Do what you like. At least i put it out there.
Why is this an argument in every online game I have ever participated on? Is it so hard to respect the Terms of Use that you agreed to when signing up for this game? Pointless debate. Moving on.
How is the Global-7 Trade thing going? I have popped in a couple times but never saw any activity.
It is often times an issue in games, due to companies implementing policy that they are not legally entitled. Doesn't matter what the user agreement said; if it wasn't legal to begin with, it's not binding and is therefore defective.Quote:
Originally Posted by SirDet
I only say this for the benefit of the company and no one else. It's their sole responsibility to make sure that their terms of use fall within national and international guidelines and currently they do not.
I really don't care if they change them or not. I'm just trying to give a heads up. that's all.
I hate to break it to you, but you are quoting Domestic Law, and Domestic law is in subjection to international law if you are part of nato.
In this case, The internet falls under international, but the violation of that law is held in court of where the servers are.
in other words, if you do something like pirating and the server is in cali, you go to cali to court, if its in england you go to england etc.
Lastly, Freedom of speech does not exist on the internet. Get that through your head.
Your ability to speak go's out the window when you log into a video game. Amazing that a video game can destroy your rights as a human.
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Originally Posted by Talar
I'd wager zynga, midway, sunsoft and every other major gaming corporation that has had to deal with and survived multi-hundred thousand dollar law suits would offer a much different view about ones rights online. in the united states or abroad.
like is said; i don't really care. just offering a heads up to the company.
It's just a matter of time until we truly find out tho, if admin behavior like was exhibited this afternoon persists. all it takes is for one person to become motivated in such a way to make corporate business a living nightmare for it's perspective employees and executives. in turn, that would put the kibosh on our participation as well.
it's really not difficult for a company to observe the obvious rights and laws that absolutely can not be bypassed; and often times the liability is the action of a single employee, whose actions are/were unbeknownst to the rest of the staff.
Anyway, on the brighter note, I agree with a need for another chat, I understand it wouldn't keep kids or anything from going in there, but at least they could get away if they feel uncomfortable, or if adults just don't like vulgar language. I understand the point, but it would make a little more sense than having to change global chats since no one would go to any...
The First Amendment is directly for use in a public venue, not a private one. As this forum is owned and operated by Ubisoft it has our rules in place. So, for example, if a player makes an offensive remark, the player in question would have to comply or will be removed from the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by pragmatic
The rules that are set in the game are from the Code of Conduct and the Terms of Service. These dictate what can and cannot be talked about in the game, as well as the ramifications of such actions.
I do understand your point of view on this matter, but as you made the account you agreed to follow and adhere to these rules.
Does this mean that global-1 won't be full of people saying women only exist to make men sandwiches as well now? That stuff got so tiresome in my first week here that I stopped paying attention to global chat entirely after a few days.
It also doesn't exactly make the best advertisement to my friends to have to warn them about that particular facet of the game either.
WE are more progressive in my guild. We let women make baskets as well as sandwiches :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Suzera
All joking aside. The Internet chat brings out the worst in some people.
/ignoreadd misogynist is one solution.
The mods do what they can, but it's an impossible task.
Joining a guild gives people access to guild chats.
Our chat has zero tolerance for gross ignorance.
I think a separate chat for level 26 and over would be awesome.