Gaming companies work with the Feds to ban Americans from playing online games

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Epic Games barred an American professor from playing its online game Paragon because someone who has the same name as him is on a US gov’t blacklist.

Muhammad Zakir Khan, an assistant professor at Florida’s Broward College, had tried to sign up for the beta of first-person shooter Paragon.  

“Your account creation has been blocked as a result of a match against the Specially Designated Nationals list maintained by the United States of America’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.” The full list includes persons and entities believed to be terrorists, drug traffickers, or agents of countries with agendas counter to that of the United States.

“I remember calling my wife over to take a look at the screen and she too was in disbelief,” says Khan.”I immediately spoke with some friends over Facebook and Twitter who were outraged and shocked. From there, the story spread all over Twitter with Tim finally reaching out to me. “

The Specially Designated Nationals list is a little-known blacklist produced by the US government as part of its enforcement of economic sanctions against nations like Iran, Syria and Russian-controlled Crimea.

Khan Tweeted Epic Games saying, my name is Khan and I am not a terrorist.

Maybe the Treasury Dept./DHS and Epic Games thought he was really Khan Noonien Singh bent on world domination.

This is incredibly disturbing, now online gaming companies are working with our government!

Tim Sweeney of Epic Games apologized on Twitter only after news articles began appearing. Sweeney alleged that the issue was due to an “overly broad filter related to US trade restrictions.”

“To be honest, I’m not satisfied with Epic Games’ response to all of this,” Khan said.

No one should be satisfied by Epic’s response. Private companies are secretly spying on us for the Feds and will censor our internet access!

image credit: Humansfree

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4 thoughts on “Gaming companies work with the Feds to ban Americans from playing online games”

  1. Ok, so we have relegated terrorists to the status of Rudolph the red nosed reindeer? They can’t join in any people games? Next we’ll be harassing them with yo’mamma jokes and making fun of their clothes on the play ground.

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  2. EVERY sub-corporation of CORPORATION U.S.A. Will eventually be tied into the command and control apparatus. In fact, just picture in your mind a tree with trunk and main branches already connected, smaller branches already in place, just waiting to be joined to the main.

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