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> Who cares if some random guy cheats really?

The kind of people who care enough to spend money on an online game.

> It's nothing compared to losing our computing freedom.

Then don't play online games with anti-cheat. Freedom doesn't mean your decisions don't have consequences—just you have the freedom to choose between the privacy of not submitting to an anti-doping monitoring regime or participating in certain competitive sports.

> Our computers are ours and game companies just need to deal with it. If people are gonna cheat, then so be it.

Game companies online services are theirs, and your just going to need to deal with it. If firms are going to require anti-cheat, then that's the cost of playing online. You have the freedom to not participate.



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