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There are 100 million Apex-playing accounts. Players aged 10 - 90 play the game, and most of them queue up solo and are put into squads with randoms.
If you get used to writing *bad words* (let's use that as an umbrella term for racial slurs, sexually charged terminology, insults, etc.), sooner or later you will use one of those words when playing with a random player. This is no longer open to debate -- these companies do have the data, spanning decades, to prove it, and in fact, they have been called in front of the US Congress to answer for *bad words* in their games in the past.
The last thing any of us should want is the US Congress legislating what is and is not allowed in games. But the only way to avoid that is if we self-moderate this problem to acceptable levels. As such, basically every multiplayer game employs a chat filter that detects *bad words* and flags the chat for human review based on the presence of those words or their superstrings.
If you are really such awesome friends that using racial slurs to address one another is acceptable for you and you consider it great fun, then you need to use voice chat, not written chat; however, be on the lookout for advances in technology, as sooner or later, voice chat will also be automatically analysed for unacceptable words.
The truth is, PLAYERS LIKE YOU have screamed vulgar insults at me in this game way too many times just because I failed to read their mind or clutch the impossible situation they got themselves into through their stupidity. You may be the rare exception who would only ever use a *bad word* towards your friends, but somehow I doubt it. Something tells me that if you throw the N word around so carelessly without realizing how inappropriate it is, you probably have no qualm calling a random squad mate the R word or the C word or the MF word, instead of something more polite like "Hey, Caustic, would have been nice if you'd put down your ultimate in this situation..."
Again -- the companies are implementing these filters out of fear of draconian legislation (and, because someone in this very thread claimed that these filters are 'leftist snowflake' invention, I'd like to point out that the Congressional hearings are typically called by Republicans, who were so very outraged by Mortal Kombat back in the 1990s, or Mass Effect 'pornography' in 2007). Basically, developers (and Twitch and other services) are trying to 'fly under the radar' - they are trying to achieve a level of civility where they could say, if push comes to shove, that the player who insulted the grandson of a US senator in an online game was automatically banned.
TL,DR:
1. It's not a leftist conspiracy.
2. It's a way to keep the level of freedom game developers have.
3. You are a member of a society that expects a modicum of civility. If you can't do that, you need anger management.
Glorious story comrade, I reserve the right to use "bad words", though
yeah someone who actually makes sense. hard to come by these days.
well i'm not special, so yeah maybe my view doesn't count as much