Microsoft is definitely laughing maniacally over their power to ban a 12 year old from a video game.

Moderation is hard work, expensive, and doesn’t scale. And Minecraft doesn’t have even a theoretical sinister benefit of being able to sway public opinion with it. It’s just a cost center to keep the ecosystem non-toxic.

Then they should outsource the moderation to the server owners and let them mod their own servers however they like.

> Moderation is hard work, expensive, and doesn’t scale.

And yet they are seeking the power to ban people from playing on their own private servers. It's a blatant power grab, but I guess it not real authoritarianism unless they're laughing like a cartoon villain when they do it, right? Give me a break. All corporations are power hungry by nature; and the largest and most powerful of them have demonstrated this nature time and time again to become the way they are today.