US congressman calls out Blizzard for allowing racist groups in WoW

From GameIndustry.biz: "United States congressman Lou Correa has criticised Blizzard Entertainment for allowing racist groups into World of Warcraft.

Correa, representative for a district that includes Anaheim, where BlizzCon takes place each year, spoke out on Twitter about a notorious player-run guild called The Enclave."

[Smokehouse]

Why don’t you just shut the power off and protect Californians?

[annoyedgamer]

Blizzard sides with murderous communist regime - I sleep
Troll guilds exist in blizzard games - Stop the presses!

[rainslacker]

Funny enough, this senator calling out blizz is closer to trying to suppress freedom of speech than what Blizzard did. Blizzard exercised their free speech, while the senator is a representative of government saying what Blizzard is allowing is not acceptable. If he actually tried to use governmental power to make Blizzard do something about it, it would be in violation of Blizzards rights.

I know it's kind of screwed up to think of it like that, but that's the whole point of the 1st amendment.

Blizzard has been known to tell people, or guilds to change their name, and Blizzard doesn't intervene in a guilds entry requirements. Guilds are like private clubs, where they can pretty much do what they want. Blizzard will also ban people for hate speech. They've been doing that since the early days of WOW. For all of Blizzards faults, at no time in their history have I ever thought they were complicit in promoting hatred or racism. They are being complicit in censoring a person or their users on their platforms from talking about some things, but Blizzard has never been inherently evil. Stupid sometimes, yes. Racist a**holes, no.

[PCgamer98]

As long as that group isn't attacking china then it's all fine with blizzard.

[bluefox755]

Glad to see politicians have their priorities in order.

[chrono1205]

We allowed racist groups in Congress and Whitehouse,we going to talk about that?

[badboyz09]

Agree!

[ShockUltraslash]

We got all the gay groups.
So why not let everyone else in?
What happened to tolerance and inclusion?

[Acecalibur]

Damn right. Get those sonz of bitxhes off the field, i mean the game.

[Vaud-Villian]

Blizzard calls out US congressman for allowing racist groups in office.

[gold_drake]

hypocrites lol

[smashman98]

Us congressmen should call themselves out for allowing racist groups in the us. Jus saying.