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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terramotus" data-source="post: 5078028" data-attributes="member: 7220">Unfortunately, it's our best defense against corporate thugs who set out to use the legal system to chill free speech in furtherance of their own profits.  Without the anger people forget and there are no consequences.Sir, while this may not have been an official C&D letter, you insult our intelligence by claiming it was not a threat.  Legal action was promised if your demands were not met.  That sounds like a threat to me.  If I threaten to kill a man if he refuses to give me his money, the knife need not actually be at his throat for the action to be a threat.Sir, how stupid do you think the members of this community are?  Allow me to quote a relevant sections of the notice your company sent to Privateer Press.  The emphasis, in bold, is mine.Either this notice was incompetently written or the intent WAS censorship of the Privateer Press forums.  Your company's statement makes no distinctions between improper use of "Army Builder" with regard to other applications and generic use in your demands to either remove or replace the terms.  The intent of the "education" was quite clearly to "mitigate" removal of further posts, not to exist in place of them.  What need is there to mitigate something that isn't going to exist in the first place.So, given that, I see three options you have to not appear like a mendacious shill for your company.  1) Revise your previous statement in this forum that you sought education, not regulation.2) Issue a public clarification to Privateer Press that censorship of the public is not required.3) Issue an apology to this community and start over, and hope your credibility as a spokesman has not been too far damaged.However, I suspect none of the above will be done, as I believe the real reason for your presence here is to whitewash what you can and to chill further discussion for fear of involving Morrus in legal disputes.</blockquote>

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