@DigitalHypeand he made it outside of their territory, which effectively is censorship. I would have understood it if he said it in Discord or here on EAHQ. but they are grossly overstepping here by suppressing negative comments on places outside of their EUA.
i would easily understand removing him from their controlled pages, but nothing was said INSIDE the GAME, nor was it said on their platform. facebook is not their platform, twitter is not their platform, youtube is not their platform.
so a game suspension for speaking his mind on things outside of THEIR platform, is not grounds to suspend or T-BAN someone in a game, it did not happen IN GAME.
Do i agree with Enders? No, i dont. he said several things that could be constructed as discrimination and hate speech towards protected subjects. But again, none of that occurred IN GAME.
Do I agree with DICE here on expanding any and all comments OUTSIDE of the platform? ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Do I agree with how DICE has been handling the game itself, mostly no.
If i went and i said something on my own facebook page, laid it out with how the game is still screwed up at some very low levels of petty fixes even, and i scrutinized DICE and EA from CEO to Janitor - that does NOT give EA/DICE the right to suspend me from IN GAME. Because US Law says, I can speak my mind as long as I don't cross boundaries that constitute hate speech or criminal acts ( like direct threats or other effective means ). EA is an American Company, DICE is Swiss obviously, but its parent is 100% American. This new stance could easily be constructed into suppression of Constitutional Rights for those who are American gamers, and that is a fight EA does not want. So this new inclusion into the EUA is a very SPICY decision, this could harm EA and DICE in more ways than they bargained for. This decision had to come from someone high up, and its NOT going to solve anything no matter how you look at it.
Its going to cause even more backlash and more players to leave.
