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Wow, this is the most entitled attitude I've seen in a long time. You let your kids play online, where they can communicate with basically anyone. So the soluti

Wow, this is the most entitled attitude I've seen in a long time. You let your kids play online, where they can communicate with basically anyone. So the solution is to grant a central authority total power to ban anyone who doesn't comply with the standards you want for your children. This is the online equivalent of a homophobe complaining that two men holding hands in the park will turn their children gay.

codeyperson 4y ago
Bit of a wild comparison. It's more like the online equivalent of someone getting kicked out of Legoland for swearing around the children.
- ryukafalz 4y ago
  Sure, if every group of friends had their own tiny version of Legoland and Lego corporate could ban you from all of them.
- 650REDHAIR 4y ago
  Minecraft wasn’t built as a kids game. It was a neat indie game that let you build stuff. On kid-specific servers that might be an apt analogy, but adult-owned, adult-populated servers shouldn’t have to worry about malicious trolls ruining their experience with a ban.
- kevinpet 4y ago
  It's more the equivalent of getting banned from driving because someone reported you to Honda, and Honda didn't verify anything.
- MereInterest 4y ago
  Nope, not at all, because it applies to privately run servers. It's the equivalent of breaking into my house and stealing my Legos, based on somebody's statement that I swore around children who happened to be near Legos. I bought Minecraft in 2011. Every few years since then, I would get friends back together, host a new server, and catch up while playing. I bought the software, I host the server, I ban people if need be, and how dare Microsoft treat it as their walled garden.
lightsandaounds 4y ago
I understand your point, but I would be upset if I took my family to Chuck E Cheese's and there was a table full of adults loudly talking about their raunchy escapades from the night before. I think it is a fair assumption that a child's game will have clean chat.
- sidewndr46 4y ago
  It's Chuck E Cheese's. Pretty sure that is a private business. They can mostly do what they want in most jurisdictions. If you want to censor communication in your own home, go for it. If I paid for a license for Minecraft Java edition, why can't my friends and I play and communicate as we see fit?
  - watwut 4y ago
    Private business like Chuck E Cheese will ask you to tone it down or leave in such situation.
    - oynqr 4y ago
      Oh yeah, I bet the underpaid fast food worker will risk getting beat up by urban youth.
      - watwut 4y ago
        Interesting that you specify "urban youth" when rural youth is no less violent, actually. Rural tough guy being rough is an euphemism for "violent". That being said, businesses pay security that exists for that purpose. Either they have own employees or they pay fee to a company to provide it as service. All the fast food worker has to do is to call. The genuinely, the original situation does not sound like involving violence.
- Cr4shMyCar 4y ago
  I think with Minecraft it's closer to the difference between a Chuck E Cheese and a barcade. Both are arcades, but one is specifically for kids and families while the other is an explicitly adult space.

codeyperson 4y ago

Bit of a wild comparison. It's more like the online equivalent of someone getting kicked out of Legoland for swearing around the children.

ryukafalz 4y ago
Sure, if every group of friends had their own tiny version of Legoland and Lego corporate could ban you from all of them.
650REDHAIR 4y ago
Minecraft wasn’t built as a kids game. It was a neat indie game that let you build stuff. On kid-specific servers that might be an apt analogy, but adult-owned, adult-populated servers shouldn’t have to worry about malicious trolls ruining their experience with a ban.
kevinpet 4y ago
It's more the equivalent of getting banned from driving because someone reported you to Honda, and Honda didn't verify anything.
MereInterest 4y ago
Nope, not at all, because it applies to privately run servers. It's the equivalent of breaking into my house and stealing my Legos, based on somebody's statement that I swore around children who happened to be near Legos. I bought Minecraft in 2011. Every few years since then, I would get friends back together, host a new server, and catch up while playing. I bought the software, I host the server, I ban people if need be, and how dare Microsoft treat it as their walled garden.

lightsandaounds 4y ago

I understand your point, but I would be upset if I took my family to Chuck E Cheese's and there was a table full of adults loudly talking about their raunchy escapades from the night before. I think it is a fair assumption that a child's game will have clean chat.

sidewndr46 4y ago
It's Chuck E Cheese's. Pretty sure that is a private business. They can mostly do what they want in most jurisdictions. If you want to censor communication in your own home, go for it. If I paid for a license for Minecraft Java edition, why can't my friends and I play and communicate as we see fit?
- watwut 4y ago
  Private business like Chuck E Cheese will ask you to tone it down or leave in such situation.
  - oynqr 4y ago
    Oh yeah, I bet the underpaid fast food worker will risk getting beat up by urban youth.
    - watwut 4y ago
      Interesting that you specify "urban youth" when rural youth is no less violent, actually. Rural tough guy being rough is an euphemism for "violent". That being said, businesses pay security that exists for that purpose. Either they have own employees or they pay fee to a company to provide it as service. All the fast food worker has to do is to call. The genuinely, the original situation does not sound like involving violence.
Cr4shMyCar 4y ago
I think with Minecraft it's closer to the difference between a Chuck E Cheese and a barcade. Both are arcades, but one is specifically for kids and families while the other is an explicitly adult space.