Freedom of speech exists within a public space, not a private space. GOG's board is a private space. It's like a mall (private property), not a city park. With that being said, a private company nakes the rules. Period. Unless their mission statement includes complete freedom of customers, it's not.

It's also important to remember that even in a public space (in the US), freedom to say what you want doesn't make you "free" from repercussions.

Overall, GOG seems to offer a fair amount of "freedom" in civil discourse, but there are rules and they do enforce them.

You're misinterpreting that ruling. The ruling was that Trump can't block people from his account because it is an official government communication channel. That doesn't apply to all people.

Did you actually read the article? It applied to Trump's twitter account because he is a public official and represents himself as such on Twitter. It doesn't apply generally.

Basically, his account represents the government at the moment, thus protection of freedom of speech currently applies to it (he can't block anyone as that would be the government disallowing them free speech). This ruling doesn't apply to private twitter accounts.

I think, you missed the point.
This "comic" tells that being banned from social platforms (e.g. Twitter) doesn't violate your freedom of speech. But if, as you've said, Trump's Twitter account is "official government communication channel", being banned means you loose access to that channel, in the same way as if Trump would block you. Thus being banned from Twitter DOES violate freedom of speech.

You're right, I missed that that was your point. It's on interesting way of looking at it and the logic does kind of follow in a sense. But I think it wouldn't apply generally because removing a persons access to twitter doesn't remove all access to government communications channels. It would be determined by a measure of whose rights were more important, the right of an individual to a single communications channel to the government or the right of twitter to manage their own platform. But that would be an interesting thing to see argued in court.

Being prohibited from communicating with the government along a channel accepted as official is a violation of your freedom of speech.

Being prohibited from communicating with a private individual who doesn't want to hear from you is not a violation of your freedom of speech.


EDIT: I see what you're saying. I failed to distinguish between your use of the terms ban and block.

yes.
mods are happily editing your content when you for example lay down the difference between race and religion. oh and at the end of it you're called a racist of course.
if you want to have an open discourse go to a bar instead.

Crimes against freedom of speech? Nice hyperbole. There is no crime.

Freedom of speech, if you define it in the US American way, is a protection against censorship by the state, nothing more. Any private company can put up their own rules. And this only applies to the US. GOG is not an American company, by the way, so better prepare for a more European view. US laws don’t apply outside the US. You sound quite snowflakey yourself, to be honest. But that’s pretty common among people who love to call “libruls” snowflakes. Basically you are being a snowflake about being challenged for your right wing world view by “snowflakes”. I have my doubts about the “everything” part. People usually react that way under rather specific conditions, e.g. if they come across racists, xenophobes, neo-nazis, promoters of authoritarian ideologies in general. Maybe you are simply a racist, and it’s not some snowfake conspiracy. Who knows? If it’s always everyone else who’s at fault, you might better start to look at yourself. You’ll find out next time you start ranting about your hero Donald Trump or some of the “historical facts” you mentioned.

Reading your post you seem to be better served on Reddit. There you can speak on all the “historical facts” about (((them))) and whatnot on TheDonald, KotakuInAction, Braincels, and so on and so forth. The echo chambers are probably also much more comfortable for you.

This is a gaming forum, not a political campaigning platform.

For everything else, please refer to the TOS and COC.

By the beard of Odin, please lock this thread!

FTFY

As long as you don't talk about gov't politics(Trump/egtc in your post above) then you're fine as far as the rules are concerned(they ar ein one of the pinned threads on page 1 of the general forums). Some might dislike you for posting some topics, though(as evidenced by your low rating in the first post here). Pay them no mind as they have no power over bannings and carry on in a civil/constructive manner and you'll be fine/welcome here. It should apply, imo.....such platform access should be a right/freedom(as some have said online)....just my two cents.I think every topic(well most) should be allowed on most GENERAL forums......albeit separated in subforums if need be. One can always pick-choose what to view, after all.
Thief 2 is the best Thief game(imo)...followed maybe by 1/the reboot and then 3.

Odin called, said you can always vent yourself out of the thread.

Or a handful of people with alts will show how they dislike certain topics on what they consider their digital "lawn". ;\

Good sarcastic joke, given effects of alcohol that may be a one way trip, for one or many.

When "hate speech" is disallowed/poorly defined in a site's rules(for example) it usually leads to one side being favored over the other as many end up on one side and call others on the other side all sorts of bad names to get them banned/punished(everywhere online).
I would hope this happens sometime soon.....platform access should be considered a right in the current age(as platforms are akin to the new commons).

Social platforms may be privately owned but the major ones serve very important functions/are essential to many people and their access to such should be guaranteed(unless they break the law of their country/etc) imo.
Some(not all but some) with high rep got it by towing the line and not rocking the boat while having agreeable opinions/doing other good works. Not all high rated users are good ones(many are though).