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That's the same argument as "but think of the children". Are you also fine with CSAM scanning tools being installed everywhere? It's okay to have a bunch of false positives that potentially ruin people just in case you can also catch a bad apple?


It's not even remotely the same argument as the CSAM one. It's not a human right to play a certain video game.


Neither is owning a phone? What is your point?


Because if you do own a phone then it becomes your property and the manufacturer shouldn't be allowed to invade the privacy of your data on your phone, but CS is free to play, it's not your property, it's Valve's property, and Valve is allowed to allow or ban whoever they want on it, you don't have a constitutional right to be allowed to paly CS without Valve's permission.


> Are you also fine with CSAM scanning tools being installed everywhere?

No, and neither am I ok with anticheat software doing it. Afaik, most anticheats don’t do that. They just make sure that nothing is modifying/injecting into the game code. Which is imo reasonable, as the anticheat is just monitoring for any injections/modifications to the game that it came with.




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