Square Enix now threatens to send players to jail for criticizing their employees

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It actually looks to be aimed at people that can be identified easily by SE themselves in order to terminate their service. For example, people using these forums or content creators. My guess is that it's especially aimed at the latter, as their opinions are what can actually damage SE more.

If anyone actually thinks that the people unstable enough to be sending death threats are going to stop doing so just because of this new policy, well, you're free to think so, I guess. But I can guarantee you that they'll just become even more vicious if anything were to happen to their access to their games (per the new policy: "cease providing support services or to refrain from providing our group's products and services").

Allowing people to have free reign to continue their inappropriate behavior because you're afraid banning them will make them angrier is a pretty nonsensical policy.

These are the ones that can actually be troublesome, since they can be highly subjective. For example, what qualifies as intimidating, a personal attack, or discriminatory can depend on the person. And what's "unreasonable" for one person won't be for another one. The main problem is that it will be SE the one deciding if it was or if it wasn't, and not someone external to the issue (like a judge). In other words, they can terminate your service just because they decided that you made too many posts asking for viera hats, or complaining about the English localization, or asking for more content, or asking for a previous worker to come back instead of some new one, etc. Yes, acording to that policy they could, if they decided that you were tresspassing what they consider "unreasonable". And God help you if you are a content creator, since then you posting that online would make it even worse, the larger your audience is, since they could consider that it makes the supposed harassment worse (it could be considered obstruction of business, for example, if they recommend not buying certain game).

Nobody is getting banned because they're complaining about Viera hats unless they're also making vile toxic comments toward the devs in the same breath. Again, people concerned about this policy are clearly dog whistling that they want to be able to tell the devs to off themselves over every little grievance with no repercussions. Any decent human being has nothing to worry about.