League of Legends is a privately owned establishment.

dapositiveviking·9/5/2016, 3:40:12 PM·13 votes·1,740 views

And like any privately owned establishment, the owners have every right to refuse your entrancd if they disagree with your behavior. Your freedom of speech, if you wish to cite that, does not hold precedent over the wishes of your hosts. Your freedom of speech does not hold you unaccountable from the consequences that the owners of this place wish to give you for saying or doing the things you do. A permaban is a forced removal by the owners for breaking their policy.

Furthermore, because metaphors are loved on this board, a permaban is not "getting arrested for your words." You aren't arrested. You aren't held in custody, unable to go anywhere else like DOTA or Smite or something. You aren't given a permanent record of toxicity that other other can look at and deny you your privilege to their establishment preemptively. A permanent ban is the same as going into a restaurant and breaking their no cell phone policy, or going into a gaming cafe and harassing other customers, or going into any other privately owned establishment and breaking rules. Treat this place like you would any other place you've been allowed entrance to.

tl;dr: follow Riots rules and you'll keep your privilege to use their services.

20 Comments

RedTao9/6/2016, 4:59:23 AM3 votes

Riot's rules are to ambiguous and open to interpretation. Please give me black and white version so I can figure out what they want to see from me.

Cyst9/5/2016, 3:50:54 PM2 votes

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Your freedom of speech does not hold you unaccountable from the consequences that the owners of this place wish to give you for saying or doing the things you do.

Several false things you need to think about with this statement.

Riot isn't technically free to do what ever they wish when they wish. They do have lot of freedom though.

There is things called consumer laws , United States actually has the most relaxed versions while the UK have massive amount of laws protecting consumers.

https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/bureaus-offices/bureau-consumer-protection

Being realistic most people here are average joes/children and riot could get away with murder for most part since they do not want the hassle or even know if they are covered or not.

Simple example of what I am talking about is that I can sit here and talk about Christianity and how much love jesus brings into your heart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class

If I got banned or silenced for that I would have legal grounds. International laws are tricky for most people but simple system is international operations must obey local laws where they are distributing their products.

Such as WoW removing specific npc's based on local distribution. For germany removing all "nazi" symbols which are illegal to display in germany.

lnhibitor Turret9/6/2016, 5:36:51 AM2 votes

"Say something players don't like and you'll be punished"

"ggwp at 19:55" "reported for toxic" Premade 4 mass reports and "Instant Feedback" automatically dishes out a punishment. Quality.

KVbqbFsC8e9/8/2016, 10:41:19 AM1 votes

Tencent is actually a publicly traded company.

Man In Sky9/6/2016, 1:09:24 AM

Can I get downvoted like everyone else please? Thanks