There is nothing better than a combination of deadly serious and delightfully absurd. The only lawsuit where you can witness parties fighting over who invented virtual reality headset. Who can speak while playing online video games? This absurd lawsuit came out while playing an online video game is both serious and funny. The big question is you’re your constitutional freedom of speech extend to your right to speak over online multiplayer video games without being muted?

According to reports of the Vice, Runescape streamer AmroElansari sued developer Jagex after Amro was permanently muted by Jagex. It is not a short game and the team had spent hours playing the game. And one could understand why he would get upset about losing his right to speech after playing the game for hours.

Jagex with his other co-players spent hours playing the game. A game with a genre that requires player communication. But that is not all that happened, just because of a game with a genre of player communication that does not mean the players have to speak. Continuous and negative commentary while playing the game can bring down one’s morale down. Bas and unwanted communication hurt a player’s confidence and experience.

If Jagex had felt that muting Elansari was the last option to win the game, he would have done the same thing. That is what is legally right as well. After filling multiple lawsuits through 2019, Elansari heard that the “First amendment freedom of speech rights doesn’t apply to private enterprises like this. And since the Runescape developers weren’t muting him based on protected characteristics like race or religion, his discrimination claims were similarly baseless. Not helping his case was a history of frivolous lawsuits like, say, being scammed on Tinder.”

Indeed, voice chats over video games usually do not help the players. It gets annoying with time and brings down the morale of the players. With time it gets toxic not only for playing but for mental health as well. So if getting muted doe not go well with you even the courts cannot help you in this matter. You are on your own.

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