I can, seems YOU can't though ?

From the Article in Question -

"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. "

Pretty standard. Freedom of expression aka freedom of speech generally always means a PUBLIC authority can't lock you up / interfere with your right to express yourself. Paragraph two adds some additional codicils around necessary restrictions, but yes, nothing earth shattering here.

The thing is - CDPR is NOT a PUBLIC AUTHORITY, you f*cking muppet.

It's a private firm. Operating a private forum. Governments or other PUBLIC authorities can't censor you (subject to the additional codicils in paragraph two), but private firms and private individuals CAN.

Rupert Murdoch has no obligation to publish the letter you send to the Opinions section of the Sun, and his staff can choose to edit it any way they'd like in the event they DO decide to publish it. The Internet works the same way as 'old media' in this regard.

How do you know I didn't put myself through university, you potato ? :-P I could have pulled pints, I could have pulled dicks, I could have been on a scholarship, I could have done night-school - any one of a range of possibilities. Sounds to me though like you're someone who didn't do university - so yeah, maybe that's where that massive chip comes from ?

Re: TLOU2

I don't give a sh*t about TLOU2, so missed the whole discussion around that really. Naughty Dog make crappy games for my taste, so honestly care factor zero and relevance likewise.

I was referring to your intellect. As for me - no complaints about my size. Intellect or anything else :)

Toddle off, there's a good chap

You mean like how you ignore him instead of personal attacking him? This is your mature way? You tell others to ignore him, but you can't even stick to your own words. Really, just leave him alone and stick to the topic.

Ignoring him? Yes. Attacking him? Hardly, and it's "personal attacks". Not whatever you wrote.

Describing his behavior is hardly attacking him. You should learn the difference.

I have left him alone, 4 days ago. I've left you alone too, until now. But you can't seem to leave me alone tho. LOL

What does that got to do with anything? Do you mean the amendment from the US constitution? GOG is owned by CDPR, a Polish company. They don't follow the US constitution. Who is stopping you from registering your own domain and writing whatever you want in there?

GOG is privately owned and as such they can decide what is going on on their forums. Just as you have the right to display or not display any material on your own website.

Is there a law that dictates you must display something on your own, privately owned platform? (Except a warning about cookies if your website is in, or can be viewed in EU.)

Feel free to open your own platform and write anything but inciting violence or treason. Well, you may want to check the local laws since for example here where I am located in (Germany) there are more special restrictions on what you can write.

If this was a private forum about food and the owner doesn't like the word "sprouts", they are free to remove your post at their consideration.

If you go by the US constitution (which you referenced earlier for some unknown reason) this actually would not qualify as a direct incitiement of violence. This would still qualify as an opinion. "Pete enjoys sprouts. Go kill Pete!" is incitement to violence. But yeah, in EU, depending on the country, this could qualify as incitement to violence.

If you have a fence and you put a sign on it that the neighbourhood kids are allowed to spray paint it, and then some kid paints a huge phallos on it, are you allowed to paint it over? How does this differ from the internet?

That's... that's not what "public domain" means. If this would be the case, my local shop would be public domain since anyone can access it. Public domain means no one owns the copyright or the copyright has expired. Public owns the IP now.

For example, at the moment if you would like to print and distribute a book by George Orwell within the EU, you would have to pay the copyright holder. Next year when Orwell's works move to public domain, anyone can print and distribute his works. In EU the limit is 70 years after the author's death, in Australia it's 50 years. So George Orwell is currently in public domain in Australia, but not in the EU.

Just because something is freely accessible doesn't mean it's public domain.

That's a quote by Evelyn Beatrice Hall from the book The Friends of Voltaire.

I see you are passionate about free speech. However, when it comes to free speech laws, you are mistaken. This is not a free speech issue -- legally. What you could argue is that removing some posts goes against the idea of free speech. And with that I would even agree with you.

If the review was on their own, private website, they have the right to do so. If the review is on a 3rd party website, they would have to ask the 3rd party to do that. You know, whoever owns the private platform decides.

Not applicable. These relate to some foreign country's laws far away across the ocean.

Page 103:
"These terms of service, required by practically all Internet Service Providers, social network providers and blogging services, turn these loci of conversation into de jure private places."

This document points out that private companies have private forums. It also points out this poses problems, and I agree with that, but ought is not is. What should be and what is are two different things.

There really should be an internet constitution. But ought is not is.

Science is not a democracy, but neither are private forums. If I started my own forum where one of the rules would be 1+1=3, then that would be the rule and anyone stating 1+1=2 could be banned.

They don't. They moderate their own, private forums.

just like the other people posting transphobia in these forums, there is this small detail you keep missing...

i won't spoil it though. it's been a couple years already, and that just makes it even more hilarious

i'm pretty sure there are other posters that know what i'm talking about