Ban the car --- either don't let them use it online, or don't show it to others.
If an account gets a threshold number of cars banned, don't let them use customized cars online.
If they're spouting hate on chat, ban them from chat too.
If an account gets a threshold number of cars banned, don't let them use customized cars online.
If they're spouting hate on chat, ban them from chat too.
"Don't let them use customized cars" is extremely different from "ban them".
If conflating the act of violently taking someone's life away irreversibly to displaying an offensive custom skin in a videogame sounds like a reasonable and genuine argument to you, I don't think there is anything anyone can say to convince you otherwise.
I agree with the parent comment that restricting customization for the offending users in the game is a reasonable punishment. They can still play the game AND have zero actual possibility of committing the same offense. The desired outcome of the user not using offensive imagery in custom skins is achieved.
Case closed, I don't think there is much left to say here then.
When your brother aims down the sights at you in Call of Duty and - gulp - pulls the trigger, you'll necessarily have him sent to jail.
That's okay, though - when you're counting on your fingers and get to three, and... hey.. are your thumb and index kinda.. touching? you'll be right there with him.
Also this was just an explanation of how it's an option, to the person that didn't understand how. You might want to do a full ban, you might not.
I can imagine a very reasonable argument for this. Someone who puts a Confederate flag on their car seems highly likely to engage in other toxic behaviors. Just like someone who calls someone a nigger once is likely to do it again. So we use the behaviors as a signal of underlying tendency. We don't want people who have this tendency on the platform because they will tend to make life worse for other users, and the loss of their business hurts us less than we gain from other people feeling more comfortable. Therefore we ban them.
On the other hand, too many on gaming platforms are engaging in clearly racist behaviour, ie. choosing offensive nicks, spamming chat, and need correction.
But not the people who have the authority to make the call, plainly.