Godot said:
goddog said:
Godot said:
I'll repost what I posted in the other thread.
Does anyone remember the episode Cartoon Wars from South Park. In that episode, they couldn't show Muhammad in an everyday life situation (it was censored by Comedy Central) while they put a really crude cartoon instulting the Christian religion.
The problem with that double standard is that Western companies fear to put "anything" even remotely offensive to Muslims since the backlash of the Danish caricatures. It's really sad because those caricatures were about the freedom of expression and I think freedom of expression is a lot more important than freedom of religion. Especially when the song wasn't offensive (it did not contain hate speech of any sort). If anything, that song was probably introduced as a way to show that the game wasn't only made for the West. |
i always thought that was very strange considering is super best friends south park had already shown muhammad. this is reactionary to our times, and can only harm our future as a country. these decisions show to terrorists that terrorism or the threat there of works. and we lose freedom of choice, they are free not to play the game if they so chose, why give special consideration to them, sony barely apologized for the church battle ground, so i can not see this being prior company policy. fanatics really get to me.
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The terrorists really won after september 11. I don't want to go too much off-topic but we have much less freedom of speech today than we had in 2000. Just look at the fact that the other thread got locked because a few members blamed that on religion.ag
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yes agreed, and not just religious ones... all terrorist.... anyone who uses fear to coheres for their desired result.on topic, why not offer an optional patch? those who want it patched do so those who want to play the game as envisioned do so its a terrible blow to a burgeoning art form. as i have read this i have come to understand the song was even recoreded by a muslim this is all kinds of confusing sigh it would be nice if we did not have to deal with such sillyness
