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

[AllenThyl]

It's clear that I’ve never mentioned anything about the legal system or Square-Enix acquiring judicial power.

Words have meaning, and your rhetoric so far has been incredibly crass when considering that this is merely a policy statement a publicly traded company put out. A piece of text.

My concern is about the subjective application of their policies, not about some legal power grab. If you're misunderstanding my argument, it’s likely due to your own reading comprehension.

Understanding a position is not the same as having that position. I "understand" what you are saying, it's borderline paranoia. It reveals that you have little understanding about the legal system or corporate governance. If the release of some policy statement could have as much wide reaching consequences as you have so far made up, the world would be a much different place than it is. That's what YOU don't understand.

The issue remains that these policies give Square-Enix dangerous discretionary power, which is far removed from the points you're making. You're the one who's not understanding what I'm saying.

So, which is it, does it, or does it not give SE "power"? You literally contradict yourself in a single paragraph. That's how little you understand your own words.

Furthermore, Square-Enix doesn't need to resort to the legal system to deny service. According to their policy, they can stop providing support or services if they determine a customer has engaged in harmful behavior, even without involving legal proceedings. Legal action is mentioned only for egregious cases, but the policy grants them significant discretion to act independently, which is the concern here.

No, they don't have to engage the legal system, and never did for terminating a business relationship. So literally, nothing has changed with that regard. They always could have ended business relationships with people that badmouth them on other platforms, they just chose not to. Or maybe they indeed did some times, who even knows? They also could always have pursued legal action against people that harassed their employees, with or without the policy statement. The whole point of the statement was to show publicly, that they now intend to use the legal means they always had!