I'm no prude - I'm thinking here about prospective new players. Because frankly, that half hour of effing, blinding, posturing and insulting is the worst single piece of universal PR nightmare CCP has manufactured, to date. And they could so easily have prevented it.

Mu

You all need to relax.
Let CCP deal with it.

PS.

A monk once asked master Chao-chou, "Does a dog have Buddha-nature or not?"
Chao-chou said, "Mu"

Yes and ban from CSM for life

The offense goes beyond his incitement of others to grief a potentially suicidal player.

His entire presentation from start to finish was nothing but a bullying public humiliation of all EVE players newer, weaker, more naive, less knowledgeable, less literate, less sophisticated and "cool," yes, even more Christian than himself, the panel, and the members of the present and viewing audience invited to join in the smug superior laughter of every more powerful "in" group at those they cast "beyond the pale."

It was no accident. No product of a drunken moment of indiscretion. It was planned, it was executed, and it was disgraceful.

Say what you want about EVE being a "hard" PvP game, The Mittani's behavior is nothing any parent would wish to see their child emulate. In an adult, in an elected representative of a player community, one which decidedly includes all those upon whom The Mittani labored to cascade contempt, such behavior is near unforgivable. It is certainly not commensurate with his any longer speaking or in any way standing for that full community's interests. Like it or not, The Mittani shamed us all as adults who choose to play EVE Online.

There is a poison in EVE, a poison which increasingly foments conflict not between peers, null sec empire against null sec empire, small corp against small corp, but which instead incites and celebrates the strong preying up the weak, the veteran upon the noob, the prepared predator against the defenseless prey, not for in game triumph or advantage but to reach beyond the game, beyond the pixels, to "harvest tears" and impotent anger from real persons.

The Mittani has made himself, not inadvertently but deliberately, the chief agent of this poison and its spread. He must go. EVE's culture is a violent, no-holds-barred PvP culture on many levels, and it should remain so, but it must step back from this ugly cesspool into which The Mittani and his ilk have been leading it.