Quote Originally Posted by Krotoan View Post
You have no "free speech" rights implied in the ToS for something like an MMO.
No on said you did.

Quote Originally Posted by Krotoan View Post
"Free speech" insofar as the U.S constitution is concerned, is only in regards to the governments action upon someone based on their speech, not what a corporate entity does with users of their service or platform.
As I said this is a legal grey area. It gets into a very involved conversation about Section 230 regulations and civil rights cases. However because SE is on both the client and server side of this equation as the provider they are in a much worse position than, for example, social media platforms when it comes to banning based on user content. That's just how case precedent has gone

Quote Originally Posted by Krotoan View Post
What is illegal about restricting how users use a service? [/QUOTE=Krotoan;5923928]
Smartphones notoriously do have warranties voided and guarantees of service invalidated by doing anything like rootkitting or jailbreaking. It might still work, but if the service finds out you've done that and you have a problem.. then that is now YOUR problem.
You can only sell networked locked phones specifically BECAUSE there are other networks in the market. The legislation around that is actually very supportive of what I'm referencing. At the same time, SE is fully in its right to void a warranty, but denial of service to a paid customer is different. Because they sold a client that works only with one server, and because they disjointed the IP of the client and server AND because they do not allow competition on either side -- that is a monopoly by definition. Gets into all the same issues as the Apple App Store cases