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Is it "their" platform if the server is hosted by people who are not them on hardware that is not theirs? They are just selling a license to use their executables, no? Or should be (I don't play Minecraft)

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In the event of abuse, parents won't draw that distinction and neither would a Twitter mob. Microsoft needs to be able to point to something concrete they're doing to keep kids safe or they're risking a scandal.

A Twitter mob should not have that kind of power and if parents don't understand how Minecraft, the most popular game of the last decade+, works by now, they never will. It's appeasing a crowd that cannot and should not be appeased.

Yes but these people vote and it counts the same as yours.

You are putting a moral limit on what Microsoft should be able to do with Minecraft, not a technical one. Who's to say your morals are better ?

>Who's to say your morals are better?

The vast majority of dedicated players, common sense, and history.

Twitter mobs have gotten people fired, ostracized from society and the cops called on them. Twitter mobs are extremely powerful, but many don't see that because they agree with the mob.

But the mob comes for everyone.

Your opinion on what power twitter mobs should have is pretty irrelevant. The reality is that they do have power, and game developers have to deal with that reality.

You seem to be saying that game developers have to keep feeding the beast, so to speak.

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.

And who has been the greatest cheerleader of this totalitarian corporate control, where nothing happens on a platform without the blessing of its corporate master? MS have only themselves to blame, for they did everything in their power to erase that distinction.

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...

For servers that kids are supposed to be on, sure. Not all servers.

Doxxing and raids on individuals, targeted sexual harassments, there are all kinds of online actions we keep away from adult oriented internet services too.

Account bans are not sufficient to prevent that. Never have been.

Maybe for very extreme things, but that's a very different setup from globally moderating profanity, nudity, alcohol, etc.

>They are just selling a license to use their executables, no?

Yes.

If it’s entirely self-hosted servers on the user’s own hardware, then how could Microsoft ban them? What would that even mean? Microsoft’s systems must somehow be involved for a ban to have any meaning.

They do authentication. And if you're banned they will refuse to give you your token.

Software that you run that is under your control? How quaint.

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