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Authoritarians always cite "bad actors" as their pretext for seizing more power.

• eganist 4y ago
  > Authoritarians This is Microsoft, and in a competitive landscape, no less. Not sure if this maps.
  • robonerd 4y ago
    If you think a corporation like Microsoft isn't attracted to power, you're nuts.
    • Spivak 4y ago
      Microsoft is definitely laughing maniacally over their power to ban a 12 year old from a video game. Moderation is hard work, expensive, and doesn’t scale. And Minecraft doesn’t have even a theoretical sinister benefit of being able to sway public opinion with it. It’s just a cost center to keep the ecosystem non-toxic.
      • robonerd 4y ago
        > Moderation is hard work, expensive, and doesn’t scale. And yet they are seeking the power to ban people from playing on their own private servers. It's a blatant power grab, but I guess it not real authoritarianism unless they're laughing like a cartoon villain when they do it, right? Give me a break. All corporations are power hungry by nature; and the largest and most powerful of them have demonstrated this nature time and time again to become the way they are today.
      • matheweis 4y ago
        Then they should outsource the moderation to the server owners and let them mod their own servers however they like.