If you play any Sony online games then you might want to stop being an asshole on your twitter, because it could come back to haunt you.
“Not only will we ban your forum account, but if it’s serious enough we’ll call up customer service and have you banned from all of our games. We do not need those individuals as customers,” Carlson says of the most offensive and anti-social players. “A very influential player, high up in a huge guild – we’ll still ban them… In our games, if you are an exploiter we don’t care who you are, how big your guild is, how many people you threaten to take with you when you go.
“We can control anybody who’s playing our games…[but] if we know who you are and you’re abusing somebody on Twitter, we will ban your game account and we will not accept you as a customer ever again. It’s not always possible to identify people [in that way], but we take that seriously.”
I say this is a good idea. There are a lot of people out there online that think they can spew any bile they want about someone or certain groups of people (racism, sexism, whatever) and think they can get away with it. You can’t do this in real life, so why should you be able to do this online? I mean for example, if you go into a grocery store and start harassing customers or employees guess what? You’re going to get thrown out no questions asked. If you start talking smack about a certain company and someone from that company happens to hear you guess what? He/She has the right to refuse service! Welcome to the world of business.
As it is businesses keep tabs (if they can find you) on your facebook/twitter feeds anyway. Do one wrong thing on them and you’ll be out of a job (or if you’re stupid enough end up in jail). This really is no different at all.
Don’t go around saying that they’re stomping on your freedom of speech. You have every right to say whatever you want no matter how ridiculously stupid it is, just like companies (like Sony in this case) have every right to kick you out for being a douchecanoe.