Why CA does not react on nazism

[ElmarkOFear]

Though why can't you just put this person on ignore and ban? Problem solved. CA has given everyone a way to eliminate idiots like this nazi propagandist, so why not use it? Would you rather see the chat server shut down like before?

Given CA hasn't shown much interest in MP over the years, I am sure they would be most happy to shut down the chat server. At least until the new expansion is out and they want to market its multiplayer feature once more.

BTW: Such speak of supporting Nazism is illegal in some countries, not all. As much as we hate it, in a lot of countries, we have to put up with it. CA is based in England and Australia. I am not sure, but I believe spouting nazi propaganda is not considered illegal in those two countries. It's stupid and hateful, but I do not think it is illegal (You would have to ask someone who lives there). Though hate speech is banned in those two places, so you may be able to go at it from that angle instead. Unfortunately, I know little of international law and its relationship to the internet. Given the RTW lobby didn't have a way to ban individuals (supposedly, which is why they shut the RTW chat server down for such a long time awhile back), I wonder if it is possible with the M2TW lobby? If not, I guess CA could shut down chat for those individuals residing in countries where it is illegal. That is what they did with Rome's chat lobby, I am sure they can do it again.

As I stated before, every time someone in the community sees somebody being offensive (or saying something which is considered illegal in their country), they can PM everyone in the lobby and ask them to put the guy on ignore and ban him from their games. If he doesn't get a rise out of people, he will go away. Since this is the internet, there is no way to really punish this low life, but you can make things uncomfortable for him by ignoring/banning.

Your idea of having certain words placed in the "filter" also appears to be a possible solution, but do you have any idea exactly how many words there would be necessary to filter such language? Plus, do you know how easy it is to get around these filters if you really want to? Just add some extra characters between letters. Then you add on top of this 100's of languages and it would take another server just to document all offensive and illegal words/speech.

Either way, I hope you have success in stopping this big dummy. There is no place in the TW community for such hatefulness, nor the world for that matter.