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If you have ever wanted to see an indie video game developer commit PR suicide, then 2016 is your lucky year. In what appears to be an attempt to outdo Hello Games and their No Man's Sky debacle, indie developer Digital Homicide has filed a personal injury lawsuit against 100 people on Steam for writing negative reviews and comments about their various games. As the 100 people listed in the lawsuit are identified only by their Steam usernames, Digital Homicide has also subpoenaed Valve, the company behind Steam, for the actual names of the 100 people that they are suing.
As if that wasn't enough, Digital Homicide is allegedly considering another lawsuit directly against Valve in an attempt to create a digital "safe space" for developers on Steam. This effectively means that on top of the $18 million that Digital Homicide is seeking in damages in their original lawsuit against the 100 Jane and John Does, Digital Homicide wants Valve to create an environment on Steam where developers are safe from things like "harassment, verbal and written assault, libel, and slander." Mr. Bob Lawsuitsfeedmyfamily, a retired legal advisor that specializes in the study of frivolous lawsuits, stated that the two cases will likely "force Digital Homicide to change their company's name to Digital Suicide." Even in a best case scenario where Digital Homicide somehow wins their lawsuits against Valve, "they will likely be ridiculed and hated for as long as the Internet can remember" Lawsuitsfeedmyfamily said.
Source: http://techraptor.net/content/kekraptor-digital-homicide-sues-valve-wants-steam-safe-space
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @02:28AM
"Safe spaces" exist everywhere, you just don't know them by that name.
For example, the westboro baptist church makes a habit of trying to violate a couple of specific types of safe spaces. Major league football games are safe spaces for so-called patriots - just look at how much shit Kapernick is getting for violating that safe space. The airport is a safe space where you can't talk about bombs. Go to a southern baptist church and try talking about all the evil done by southern baptists and see how quickly you are ejected. Go to Brigham Young University and try drinking alcohol or kissing your gay partner. Go to a hillel house frat and start talking about how hitler was a great guy,
So now some people want to establish areas with similar rules for whatever topics they care about and all the self-righteous freedom warriors get their panties in a twist. Jesus fucking christ... a bunch of people who are blind and when someone actually shines a light they lose their shit because for the first time they start to see a tiny piece of the world and they do not like!!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @03:09AM
Try going to a oil company shareholder's meeting and talking about climate change...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @05:33AM
The problem is that the people who explicitly demand safe spaces usually end up taking over locations where normally anyone can go, try to limit discussions in normal places, etc. If they really were just minding their own business and creating some exclusive group somewhere, I doubt anyone would care.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @10:17AM
Thats a fantasy. Seriously. Its just wishful thinking by people who want to rationalize being a dick. Not unlike the anti-gay hysteria about how gays don't just want equal rights, they have a homosexual agenda to recruit young straight boys.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @06:00AM
As the nature of PC culture has morphed from "pleased don't be inadvertently a dick" to 50,000 gendered pronouns shitlord, so too has the nature of safe spaces.
Letting people morn in peace? Very much in the don't be a dick spectrum. Kapernick's protest? Less meaningful than John Carlos's (and in many respects defining patriotism). Airports? I think most people are beyond the security theater at this point when the space is so safe all liquids must be in the mandatory quart zip-top bag.
Private churches and universities? Their space, their rules.
To conflate these things as all being the same is just to lose all sense of granularity.
Especially for an open forum like a product review of a message board; you are being disingenuous in the extreme.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @11:32AM
> Less meaningful than John Carlos's (and in many respects defining patriotism).
So fucking what? Your opinion about the "meaningfulness" of his protest is totally fucking irrelevant to the topic. Its about it being perceived as a violation of a safe space, doesn't have to be well thought out.
But since you brought it up, John Carlos thinks you are an asshole and Kapernick has his strong support. [mercurynews.com] Dicklicks like you were saying the exact same crap about Carlos at the time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @02:17PM
50,000 gendered pronouns
You've been successfully trolled. Please keep reminding me why I decided to vote Clinton.
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Monday September 19 2016, @01:05PM
By that definition, all of civilization is a "safe space." Go to any public place and express an opinion that's unpopular - you'll be attacked verbally if not physically and maybe even harassed by law enforcement.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @01:37PM
Gotta love the absurdity of it though, essentially saying someone with a bullhorn proselytizing at 3:00 AM from the street is the same as not wanting to hear a controversial opinion. See? You're just the same. You just want "your" safe space.
And if someone breaks into your home and you don't welcome them with open arms, you're just a censoring hypocrite not wanting to hear some one else through.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday September 19 2016, @02:32PM
There's already laws on the books to punish those things, that have nothing to do with free speech. Stop being obtuse.
someone with a bullhorn proselytizing at 3:00 AM from the street
Disturbing the peace. Doesn't matter whether they're blessing everyone or quoting Mein Kampf.
And if someone breaks into your home
Breaking and entering, obviously, trespassing etc. Has nothing to do with speech.
Try harder
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"