Star Citizen prohibits some sponsors before launch

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In Star Citizen, a discussion of profanity filter out of control. He appealed to critics who complained that such a filter would restrict the right to freedom of expression and would be censorship. But the tone in an organization was so characterized by racist terms that developers now cast some players and sponsors.

Then the discussion began: A user went developers forum Star Citizen with the request that developers should install a filter for profanity at the least exclude the worst terms that you would never use in real life because they are sexist or racist.

A game must provide a safe environment for all players feel comfortable.

What is standard in other games caused a big discussion among the community of Star Citizen. The answer was, among other things (via reddit):

• Such a filter would prevent people from talking freely. Only treats the symptom, not the cause.
• With a system like this, just I want to silence people who have a different opinion. This is also called censorship.

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I'm not racist, but ...

So who got into trouble? In the discussion, a group of players came in sight, the Mandalorian Armed Forces (MAF). Now they are circulating screenshots of Star Citizen and Discord in which members of the group were expressed racist. For example, derogatory and insulting terms were used for black people (via reddit).

But also he said again and again that were not intended any of this. It's just a misunderstanding, you're just kidding:'re not racist, but ...

People unfairly attacked the group. These are the typical social justice warriors on Twitter or people looking for drama rather than clarify things easy.

Finally, members of this group, MAF Star Citizen, were banned. 4 banned accounts are listed by name on Reddit (via reddit). Apparently these are veterans of Star Citizen who have put some money on the game.

Reddit analyzes if the players get their money back or if they lost because of their misconduct.

The player explains why he is spending $ 100,000 in Star Citizen

controversial discussion on Prohibitions

This note: In discussions on the ban, it is very noticeable that there are some in the forums of Star Citizen who argue that demand to ban someone from Star Citizen of racism is not legitimate.

For example, we read in the forum: Political activism has nothing to do with the forum (via rsi)

Racism also has nothing to do with Star Citizen, because people are racist, play or not.

Another user says: Just because someone in Star Citizen plays a blood thirsty pirate who wants to sell to others as slaves, not racist. People would have to choose between game and reality.

It's a much larger problem than Discord developers Star citzen.

Other users Star Citizen disagree here. They believe that the ban is good and think that there is no alternative but to intervene clearly against racism.

This is what CIG says: They are much less tolerant parts of their community. In a statement (via rsi), an employee says: Racism has no place in the community of Star Citizen. We follow a policy of zero tolerance and we take very seriously all reports .

The problem with racism in the MMO guilds is not in any way affect only one that Star Citizen:

2 best WoW guilds should be racists, Locos and really disturbing