Pre-approval of newspaper articles?
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by Evan Feinman
Dear admins,
We like this game. We want you to be successful. You've got a very nice underlying game here. However, lately you've really been dropping the ball, and I can tell you honestly that most of us now think you interventions hurt the game more than help it.
Let me acquaint you with a concept in American jurisprudence: prior restraint. Here's the wiki:
Prior restraint is often considered a particularly oppressive form of censorship in Anglo-American jurisprudence because it prevents the restricted material from being heard or distributed at all. Other forms of restrictions on expression (such as suits for libel, slander, defamation, or actions for criminal libel) generally involve punishment only after the offending material has been published. While such punishment might lead to a chilling effect, legal commentators argue that at least such actions do not directly impoverish the marketplace of ideas. Prior restraint, on the other hand, takes an idea or material completely out of the marketplace. Thus it is often considered to be the most extreme form of censorship.
You see, by requiring public statement to be cleared before publishing you're really antagonizing a large portion of your player base. It's not so much what you're censoring, it's that you're censoring that drives us crazy. It offends our fundamental sensibilities.
I fully anticipate this article not getting published, or getting forfeit points for publishing it. You see, it feels like, even though we all want this game to succeed, and for you guys to make tons of money for founding it, you fight us - constantly.
Anyway, I invite folks to comment.
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I go out to eat one night and the next morning eRep is on the fritz?
signed
inb4PublicDebate
What do you expect, their game reviews all tell the truth now, their FB Game rating is in the toilet, they dont care to listen to their customers/consumers... So why not censor everyone to stop new players from seeing what the old players think.
Stuff that broke yesterday was due to new censorship module?
Stuff that broke yesterday was the result of them spending all their time trying to muzzle dissent and implement gold-burning changes rather than spending time getting things to work and make meaningful improvements that people actually want and like rather than loathe and rag on. If they spent their time making this game better, their efforts suppressing player free speech would be unnecessary.
signed in blood