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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.
Posted by: Loaf
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: Loaf
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Freedom to speak =/= a guaranteed audience
Just because you want to talk (and you can talk) there is nothing that allows you to force people to listen to you if they choose not to.
I don't feel it's fair that people can mute me just because they don't want to hear me. I don't want to hear other people either and it's not fair that I have to be mute banned. It's unfair to me. I was about to take this to the reach forum.
You think that it would be "fair" that they would have to listen to you even if they don't want to? People who paide the same price for the game, paid the same XBL membership dues, and have the exact same privileges that you do?
What makes you so special that you can decide how their online experience is going to be?
Well sometimes i'm not the one at fault. Sometimes there's circumstances that are unfair, like jerks who can just mute you because they don't want to hear your voice and I feel like my game experience should not be run by other members of the online community, that is not fair.
Everyone has the ability to control their gaming experience. Including what comes out of their speakers. If someone chooses to mute you, that is their decision. You have the exact same ability and it is your choice to use it or not.
I am picturing that you feel you have something "important to say and people should hear it". Imagine going to an open forum or square downtown, standing on a stepladder, and shouting out to the crowd. You would be exercising your right and ability to speak. But you can't MAKE the people who are walking by stop and listen to you. If they choose to keep walking, keep doing what they are doing and ignore you, that is their right, which you have no ability to deny them.
If you are speaking of a voice ban (which I think that you might be) then take the above example and make it so that what you are saying while on top of that stepladder is (in the opinion of the many people walking by) offensive, intrusive, and is "crossing the line" by not just being one other person in the crowd but a disruption to the peaceful goings on in that square. Then, those individuals would be within their right as a part of a civil society to bring your actions to the attention of law enforcement and complain that you are "creating a disturbance". The police could then speak with you and ask you to please tone it down or to move along (similar to a voice ban).
A society has the right to set what it considers to be acceptable guidelines for civil interaction and take steps to eliminate those who do not abide by those mutually agreed upon rules.
[Edited on 04.13.2011 11:07 AM PDT]