{"id":213681,"date":"2020-01-29T01:04:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1817369\/"},"modified":"2020-01-29T01:04:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T17:04:37","slug":"you-dont-have-a-legal-right-to-speak-in-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/29\/you-dont-have-a-legal-right-to-speak-in-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don\u2019t Have a Legal Right to Speak in Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/astro-a10-scaled-650x366.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>When it comes to combining the deadly serious with the delightfully absurd, there\u2019s nothing better than a video game lawsuit. Where else do you see legal battles about who invented what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/tech\/zenimax-claims-john-carmack-stole-vr-tech-for-oculus-in-latest-lawsuit-filing-1667517\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">virtual reality headset<\/a>, whether or not <em>Fortnite<\/em> is addictive as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/fortnite-lawsuit-claims-game-is-as-addictive-as-cocaine-1806665\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">cocaine<\/a>, or a company suing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/pubg-corp-wises-up-and-drops-its-lawsuit-against-epic-games-1744491\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">makers of the tech<\/a>\u00a0that makes their smash success popular in the first place. That\u2019s not to say issues surrounding video games aren\u2019t worth arguing in court. After all, it was a Supreme Court case that ruled that games are protected speech. It\u2019s just funny that video games allowed Antonin Scalia of all people to be celebrated in a vacuum\u2026 or in a game about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/interview-befriending-the-justices-in-supreme-courtship-1774295\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">befriending sexy young justices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now a new lawsuit has answered a question raging chatterboxes on Xbox Live have had for years. Does constitutional freedom of speech extend to your right to speak over online multiplayer without being muted? The answer, thankfully, is of course not.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M7q7NwAfOek?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As reported by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/y3mp9j\/gamer-files-lawsuit-claiming-muting-violated-his-human-rights-loses-badly\"  rel=\"noopener\">Vice<\/a><\/em>, <em>Runescape<\/em> streamer Amro Elansari sued developer Jagex after they permanently muted him. After spending thousands of hours in the game, you can see why he would be upset to lose his voice in an MMO, a genre that especially relies on player communication. However, bad unwanted communication also hurts player experiences. And if Jagex felt muting Elansari would improve the game overall, then that\u2019s what they are going to do.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s what they have the legal right to do. After filing multiple lawsuits and appeals throughout 2019, Elansari heard time and again that first amendment freedom of speech rights don\u2019t apply to private enterprises like this. And since the <em>Runescape<\/em> developers weren\u2019t muting him based on protected characteristics like race or religion, his discrimination claims were similarly baseless. Not helping his case was a history of frivolous lawsuits like, say, being scammed on Tinder.<\/p>\n<p>Voice chat in video games largely sucks. It\u2019s so easy for things to get super toxic. I mute everyone just for my own mental health. So if that bothers you too bad. The courts aren\u2019t on your side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/astro-a10-scaled-650x366.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/figure>\n<p>When it comes to combining the deadly serious with the delightfully absurd, there&rsquo;s nothing better than a video game lawsuit. Where else do you see legal battles about who invented what virtual reality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/you-dont-have-a-legal-right-to-speak-in-video-games-1817369\/\">You Don&rsquo;t Have a Legal Right to Speak in Video Games<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/\">Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2020\/01\/29\/you-dont-have-a-legal-right-to-speak-in-video-games\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2054,2,3043,2047,16,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,478,481,482,480,479,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,477],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-TAt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213682,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213681\/revisions\/213682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}