[codeyperson]

Bit of a wild comparison. It's more like the online equivalent of someone getting kicked out of Legoland for swearing around the children.

[650REDHAIR]

Minecraft wasn’t built as a kids game. It was a neat indie game that let you build stuff.

On kid-specific servers that might be an apt analogy, but adult-owned, adult-populated servers shouldn’t have to worry about malicious trolls ruining their experience with a ban.

[MereInterest]

Nope, not at all, because it applies to privately run servers. It's the equivalent of breaking into my house and stealing my Legos, based on somebody's statement that I swore around children who happened to be near Legos.

I bought Minecraft in 2011. Every few years since then, I would get friends back together, host a new server, and catch up while playing. I bought the software, I host the server, I ban people if need be, and how dare Microsoft treat it as their walled garden.

[ryukafalz]

Sure, if every group of friends had their own tiny version of Legoland and Lego corporate could ban you from all of them.

[kevinpet]

It's more the equivalent of getting banned from driving because someone reported you to Honda, and Honda didn't verify anything.