Why does EA censor Judaism
I hope I can get clarification for this issue fairly quickly, I was banned for my steam username, no warning, no ask to change username, just banned, and the reason behind this banned is described as...
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Do you know how I can get in touch with them?
EA_Mako
Community Manager
Community ManagerHey @BigPapiJewy,
Keep in mind as well that while you may have your own personal reasons and perfectly normal intentions for using a particular word or phrase, we also have to consider how some words appear to others including other contexts that word or phrase has been used in previously.
If you're running into names you'd consider to be inappropriate, please be sure you're reporting them so they can be reviewed accordingly. We're unable to take action on those types of reports on the forums so I've removed the inappropriate names, but do feel free to report them here if you didn't have a chance to do so in-game and would like to bring those to the attention of our Terms of Service team.
As far as the ban itself, this will need to be appealed with our ToS team using these steps, as we're unable to review or otherwise make any account changes on the forums.
I do understand that words can be offensive to others in certain contexts, but doesn't religion/culture mean different things to different people? Is EA's point in banning people based on their usernames reflecting themselves, to value someone who doesn't appreciate someone else's culture over the person expressing themselves and being proud of their heritage?
- EA_Mako
Hey @BigPapiJewy,
I can see where you're coming from for sure, though keep in mind we don't have any way to verify whether a particular name is being used in a self-identifying way or to be inappropriate or malign another group, as we quite simply just don't know who an individual is behind the keyboard.
When a name is reported and brought to our attention, we'd have to consider how a particular name has historically been used in previous situations as well as any context that may relate to how it was used in these circumstances.
There's certainly nothing wrong with wanting to express your heritage, though that gets a bit more complicated when online anonymity enters the mix. If you feel the wrong call was made there, please feel free to submit another appeal so our ToS team can review that situation again since we'd be unable to make changes here. Thanks!
Welp did the best I could, apparently evidence isn't enough and it's just a no without a reason👍
