this is Minecraft a Blog game created in
2011 by Mojang which I'm suing for
breaking the law and pissing me off but
to understand why I'm doing this we need
to go back to December of 2022 you see
Minecraft is a game where anyone can add
anything even if it wasn't part of the
original game and what I wanted to do
was recreate an old game I used to play
in 2013 called MC war that unfortunately
shut down and after months of
development and growing the community
that was eager to play the game on
launch we finally set the release date
to the 2nd of June of 2023 and this is
where everything went wrong only one day
after posting the releasee date a tweet
was posted stating that Mojang
enforcements basically the guys that
enforce the terms of service threatened
to take down a server called a GTM
because a new directive from Mojang
leadership had determined that guns and
weapons are considered non-compliant
features under the adult content
requirement for commercial usage servers
and that they now have to be completely
removed because they're against the
brand guidelines usage guidelines and
end user license agreement sh so
basically after months of development
and thousands of dollar spent on
marketing yes this thing cost $11,000
everything was completely wasted because
it's now prohibited so as you can
imagine all servers that contained guns
basically entered panic mode because we
were all about to be annihilated by
Mojang a group with all of these owners
was created to discuss and potentially
negotiate asking very valid questions
such as how come servers that have had
firearms for well over a decade so far
have never had any issues but are
suddenly prohibited why is it okay for
Mojang's own marketplace where they get
a cut of every sale to have guns when we
don't get to have them and what exactly
do they mean by guns and weapons and
suitable for children because it's
totally not like there are thousands of
games that literally have guns and
weapons in them that are made for
children and it's totally not like
Minecraft itself has explosive crossbows
which are a firearm in most
jurisdictions by the way gunpowder
bomb you get the idea to which Mojang
after conveniently ignoring half these
points replied that this recent
directive from Mojang leadership wasn't
for guns and weapons but was purely for
guns and Firearms isn't that change
convenience but hey what would I know
it's not like Mojang hides information
from the public for illicit reasons
right this is called for shadow so since
Mojang didn't exactly explain what
qualified as a real life weapon we went
ahead and asked is this a weapon what
about this which they again completely
ignored and after demanding more answers
they eventually said on June 13th that
the key decision makers are on holidays
so I guess we'll just have to wait until
these key decision makers stop being on
vacation but hey it's not like it's
going to
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take 6 months is how long it took them
to reply and the thing about having your
entire Project's existence be based off
of the decision of a CEO that is on
vacation is that you can't really
justify investing into development or
marketing when it could all go to
if they don't change their minds we were
essentially told that even though the
decision is not final guns are okay for
now which is a different way of saying
but we will be changing our minds later
we just can't afford any more bad press
right now because this entire thing has
hit the news and got millions of people
to be mad at us for being and
while that could have been the end of it
while these ass assoles spent half a
year replying I was investigating
whether this entire Fiasco could have
been illegal and oh boy this entire
Fiasco started because a new directive
reinterpreted adult content in the end
user license agreement in other words
Ula to include guns and firearms and
hence prohibit them these Clauses that
are written in the Ula are more commonly
known as a terms of service this is
what's called a click wrap agreement
it's the thing that forces you to check
it before signing up for a service it's
essentially a set of rules that you have
to follow when using the service but the
thing you have to understand is that
this is a type of Legally binding
agreement or otherwise contract and
unlike some third world countries like
the United States where companies can
get away with writing anything into the
contract like you can't sue us because
we said so Mojang is in Sweden and
Sweden is in Europe and in Europe we are
supposed to have competent governments
that have things like consumer
protection laws and contract law note
how I said supposed to this is important
for later in Mojang's first email they
say that under the new directive guns
and Firearms are not compliant they
follow it up saying that these
activities are specifically prohibited
by the Mojang brand guidelines
guidelines that literally do not exist
but which they cite multiple times
anyways the commercial guidelines and
the Ula now let's go ahead and look at
the actual contract for these specific
prohibitions and oh would you look at
that it hasn't been updated at all since
April of 2020 which is over 3 years ago
and these specific prohibitions that
they mentioned are nowhere to be found
it's almost as if they pulled it out of
their ass remember how I mentioned that
it's not like modang hides information
from the public for illicit reasons
right well it turns out that this new
directive that prohibits gun which
Mojang enforces as if it was part of the
Ula isn't actually on the Ula so this
information is hidden only known to
Mojang and not written anywhere and
since it can't be found anywhere and is
literally pulled out of their ass they
can change it as many times as they want
which they have three times now you
might be asking what the problem is
since at the end they did tell us what
we need to do to comply and you see
Sweden and Europe which Sweden is a part
of have these things called consumer
protection laws and contract law that
dictates how a contract is allowed to be
written and by looking just a little bit
in Europe's website you can see that
contract must be fair transparent and
cannot have unfair terms like for
example a get out CLA such as all
permissions and consents may be revoked
at any time if we think that it is
appropriate to do so or we don't like
what you are doing if that doesn't sound
like a get out clause hidden terms
one-sided changes to a contract
one-sided changes to a product or
service one-sided interpretation of the
contract doesn't that sound familiar
after contacting the European Union's
legal advisers I was told that
misleading emissions basically hiding
information is a form of unfair
commercial practice where Mojang fails
to give information to the consumer and
that all relevant information needs to
be present and that it's also misleading
emission if Mojang provides the consumer
with information but does so in an
unclear unintelligible or ambiguous
Loosely worded way it's almost as if
they're not allowed to have hidden
closets where I am then encouraged to
sue before the home court because all
the time and resources I put into to my
project have essentially gone to so
now that we've covered that moing hiding
from the public in a contract is
illegal under European consumer
protection laws on top of things like
the Contra prum Doctrine which basically
says that if something is Loosely worded
I'm the one that gets to choose how to
interpret it but Kean why go through all
this trouble this is probably just a
mistake by Mojang a one-off thing it's
not like Mojang does a ton more illegal
right now when all of this started I
never wanted this to be a lawsuit
expected Mojang to not be and
be reasonable and the way I tried to do
this was by collecting all of this
information and sending it to Media
outlets and news sources knowing that it
would create a ton of backlash that
Mojang simply couldn't ignore moang is
set to release according to their new
guideline moang no longer being the kind
company it didn't work even though the
information got millions of views Mojang
just played the good old do nothing and
the problem will just go away but now I
am here you pieces of but then
while we were waiting 6 months for the
key figures to stop being on vacation on
the second of August 2023 Mojang did the
worst thing they've ever done they
updated the Ula that had been unchanged
since 2020 and tried to hide the fact
that they had changed it by not telling
anyone about it and releasing it at the
same time as a major game update
snapshot content really cool Ula changes
very important which one gets announced
on Twitter the snapshot is one being
used to mask the other putting all of
their efforts into marketing the game
update so people wouldn't notice the Ula
update they never notified anybody about
it now under consumer protection laws
when he come company changes its terms
of service it is required to notify its
users about set changes before they take
effect which is the reason you get all
of these annoying emails that say Hey
we've changed our terms of service
Mojang tried covering it up but not only
did Mojang not notify anybody of these
changes on top of covering it up but
they also added that these guidelines
may change as time goes by we reserve
the right to change our minds at any
time so don't count on these guidelines
always being here it is up to you to
check back to see if these guidelines
have changed and you bet I wasn't going
to let them get away with hiting that
after analyzing the contract and putting
all the shitty Parts together I sent the
information forward to basically
everyone and oh boy Mojang updated it's
you Minecraft has gone
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igned on the same dayce it however they
want now to say that this blew up in
their face would be a little bit of an
understatement it got so bad that a
handful of creators were reached out to
by Mojang and given a heads up attached
were answers and guidance to clear up
the confusion that's right select
Figures were grouped up by Mojang and
given information that wasn't publicly
available to try and Cal it down a bit
information that should be present in
the contract by law and just when you
thought it couldn't get any worse they
forced every single one of these members
to sign a non-disclosure agreement that
forbids them from giving out any
information that they were told for a
contract that should be publicly
available I bet they didn't think I'd
find out but I know lots of things lots
of things so now that we've covered that
they hide changes from the contract
Force select people to sign n disclosure
agreements for changes that should be
publicly available on the contract
refuse to notify about these changes and
try to cover it up it can't possibly get
any worse
right in the end user license agreement
they specifically state twice that any
form of gambling violence term or other
unsafe and mature content is strictly
forbidden which totally makes sense but
what if I told you that the gambling
part was a lie you see in Minecraft when
you look at any of the biggest servers
you'll quickly notice a recurring
pattern in their shots they have
something called crates and Crate Key
the keys are used to play lotteries
inside of the game that have a chance to
give you extremely overpowered items or
more money than anyone else almost like
a casino with extremely similar tactics
that are made to get you addicted and
turn a profit theoretically speaking
under Mojang's own rules this should be
completely forbidden as it's clearly
gambling even by Sweden's own
definitions of gambling but it turns out
that there's a separate list of hidden
terms just like in the gun case that
allows gambling to take place which has
led to thousands of children getting
gambling addictions I spoke to them I
was around 8 years old when I started
gambling on Minecraft servers at wanted
the overpowered armor was about feeling
cool and getting gave me a chance to win
an item that you just couldn't when I
win everybody gave me attention it was
like this Rush took over every time I
opened it felt on top of the world
winning the thrill faded fast and I just
wanted it to happen hold on me like a
habit I just couldn't break they always
left me wanting more just went downhill
from there I got my Dad's credit card
and any pocket money I'd had stole my
Mom's credit card to buy I lost
everything thinking back I left me
feeling sad break the CED me into a deep
depression it's terrible and they do
this as a Swedish company where our own
government and gambling institutions
have some of the strictest laws in the
world related to gambling that
completely bar anyone below 18 years old
from playing even going as far as to
requiring bank ID authentication to play
a scratch off ticket and Mojang just
allows it so now that I've shown you
some of the illegal that Mojang has
done and trust me there's so much more
like how they're currently forcing
developers onto their own Marketplace so
they can charge extremely exorbitant
fees for no reason while blocking off
any kind of competition as if that
doesn't sound like some company that has
recently been hit by billions in fines
from Europe it's time to move on to the
lawsuit since Mojang has shown that they
really don't give a about the law a
lawsuit is really the only way to get
them to realize that your actions have
consequences how do you actually sue a
billion dollar Corporation owned by an
even bigger trillion doll Corporation
it's quite easy actually all you need to
do is hire a law yeah lawyers are
extremely expensive so when you're
legally broke to the point of having to
live in an underground basement filled
with radioactive gas yes that's
unfortunately not a joke how are you
supposed to finance Justice remember
when I said here in Europe we are
supposed to have competent governments
this is where that becomes important
when someone in the European Union has
rights guaranteed by the charter of
Human Rights like for example article 38
consumer protection if that person does
not have enough money to seek out
Justice according to article 47 you
should have the right to an effective
remedy before a tribunal and a fair and
public hearing where everyone shall have
the possibility of being advised
defended and represented in other words
even if you're brok BR according to the
Charter of Human Rights you are entitled
to seek out Justice every country in
Europe needs to comply with this Charter
to be part of the European Union and
Sweden's way of doing this is through R
yel the legal aid institution which
according to their own website provides
remuneration of legal aid for up to 100
hours of work unless otherwise
determined by the court and after
contacting hundreds of lawyers I was
told information that is hidden from the
institution's website the first one is
that when a lawyer has to work with a
client that has legal aid they are
forced to reduce their hourly rates to a
which is often less than 40% of what
they usually charge an hour this
basically means that the overwhelming
majority of lawyers I contacted simply
refused to take the case and that the
ones that were willing to do so were
extremely inexperienced and that's not
exactly a fair and effective remedy is
it and the second biggest problem is
that this case is so complex that it
would way overshoot the 100 hours that
were mentioned on the website but wait a
minute doesn't it also say unless
otherwise determined by a core it turns
out that after talking to employees that
work at the legal aid institution on top
of them having a ton of spelling
mistakes and writing like cavemen like
seriously how do you write like this and
are employed at the government they
admitted that the 100 hour limit is
basically fixed and anything beyond that
is just a few hours and it's just to end
the case meaning that in other words I
have to either choose between getting
100 hours of help and then going
bankrupt or represent myself alone in
court against a billion dollar
Corporation not exactly fair is it so at
this point the government institution
That was supposed to uphold article 47
had failed to do so I then went to these
two institutions that are supposed to
oversee the that other government
institutions do their job properly but
unfortunately they said we don't care
it's not important enough I wish I was
joking I really do next up we have
Sweden's Consumer Protection Agency
consument veret which is supposed to
represent you if you are unable to do so
yourself and the case is determined to
be of importance enough to Consumers to
which they replied that representation
in this case cannot be expected to lead
to an outcome that is of importance to
law enforcement in other words they
don't give a next up we have the
Swedish national board of consumer
complaints orn that said that apparently
when I entered this agreement with
Mojang when I was 12 years old I did not
do so acting as a consumer meaning that
I must have been a really young
12-year-old corporate entity to enter
this contract with Mojang at 12 years
old yeah every single government
institution in Sweden That was supposed
to uphold justice has failed to do so
and article 47 of the charter of human
rights has been violated by the entire
country of Sweden Mojang will keep
getting away with this because they know
full well that nobody that is affected
by their decisions has the means to sue
them in court I'm sorry I really tried
this didn't end how I thought it would
end and while I really want to give up
because like at this point I've tried
everything there's just nothing more
that I can do my friends convinced me to
try one last thing because this isn't
about me anymore it's about all of us
all of you if Mojang gets away with this
they're setting the precedent that they
can do whatever they want and we have no
rights whatsoever so I'm opening a
crowdfunding campaign for legal fees so
that maybe just maybe we're able to hold
accountable for everything they've done
as a community because if we don't fight
nobody will