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ns to, is Emerald. This bothers me in a few ways.<br><br>First thing is I f=
eel it will split development of group projects because certain things won&=
#39;t make the &quot;list&quot;. And will be deemed unacceptable, and some =
developers will side with LL, some won&#39;t.<br>



<br>Then you have inevitable policy. If your viewer is not on the list, you=
 can be banned for using it. This will drive people away from third party v=
iewers faster than you could ever imagine. It also eliminates the problem f=
or them. Its hard to ban viewers, its easy to ban users.<br>



<br>The specific change that bothers me the most is that encrypted chat was=
 listed as an item that was against community standards or ToS. Chris Tuchs=
 spent the better part of an entire month implementing it and perfecting it=
 to the point it is at. I don&#39;t see any dev on the team jumping up and =
down to remove it either. It&#39;s a very tightly coupled component and its=
 only purpose is to enhance privacy. If we don&#39;t remove it, we don&#39;=
t make the registry, and if we are not on the registry they have reason to =
ban users of it. You ban users, nobody will use the viewer out of fear.<br>



<br>Effectively, they are creating a method to leash legitimate developers =
of third party clients to conform to their exact wishes, that will not do a=
nything to deter content theft or griefing. It is only a way to better just=
ify banning users of third party clients.<br>



<br>While I see it partially as a good idea, yes, I&#39;d prefer we did not=
 have a thousand people running around stealing content or having griefing =
tools, this isn&#39;t the way to do it.<br>
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