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		moonchild on Dec 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Epic is turning off online services and servers fo... Distributing implementations of closed protocols is speech. I don't see why such restrictions would be desirable. If you don't want to play games that use closed protocols, you're under no obligation to do so.

LadyCailin on Dec 15, 2022 [–]

This is an absurd stretch. The definition is already stretched too far without additional stretching.

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