Having been exposed to some of the stuff going on at other companies communication systems, I have total sympathy for mojang wanting some people off of all their platforms, forever.
Most any system is built like this from the ground up, it’s rather surprising it took them this long.
Yes.
The vast majority of dedicated players, common sense, and history.
But the mob comes for everyone.
Game developers don't have to do anything.
They choose to, and the Twitter mob grows more powerful as a result.
It's my opinion that they should stop doing that, because, as they say, the mob comes for all.
Maybe in addition to educating users on inclusive language in MS Word [1], they could educate users about the very basics of how computers work. But that would go against MS's interests.
[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/new-microsoft-word-feature-wi...
Be my damn guest, as long as it's operated by Microsoft (their public vetted list of servers, realms and so on). However, Minecraft has a jar server that you can download and run yourself, which Microsoft has no business interfering with. If I want to i can setup a "Minecraft against humanity" server and invite my friends, nobody should give two shits. Just monitoring speech at all on a private server makes no sense, and should 100% be opt in.
More generally, the solution to moderation is often private or semi-private groups. There's no one size fits all moderation rules, so as far as possible let people moderate their own spaces. Otherwise you're just renting you speech permissions from a corporation.
Then parents should take care of their kids.
This is like dropping them off on a random street corner and then complaining someone is fucking in an adjacent alley. The world isn't kid safe and it shouldn't be.