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CladInShadows on 08 December 2014
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o_O.Q said:

i like how trying to stop feminists from censoring video games is now being called censorship lol

feminists recently got gta banned from being sold in Australia at target and kmart citing violence against women as a reason; completely ignoring of course that you primarily kill men in the game because men do not matter and are not equal after all

i was watching some mortal kombat yesterday and i basically watched scorpian rip casey cage in half with a fatality

and as i was watching that it occurred to me that if they shut down gta for those reasons what about games like mortal kombat?

this is what a lot of you do not understand nd this obviously does not only apply to games... it is a cancer slowly eating away at the freedom of expression, freedom of speech etc etc etc

I must have missed the part where Anita created a petition and got GTA banned in Australian Target. Silly me.

For the record, I have just as much against THAT petition as I do THIS petition.  Both are seeking to stifle how a company runs their business. Both are a form of censorship.  I'm not for or against feminism.  I am absolutely against censorship.  Anita has not once censored anything.  She presents her views and opinions and that's pretty much it.  And she's gathered a following of fans, as well as gained a shitload of haters.  Her being part of (however big or small) the creative process on a video game is not censorship. 

What YOU do not understand is that once we let these stupid petitions gain ground, that's when freedom of expression and speech and creativity is compromised.


*edit* And I was around during the moral uproar of the first Mortal Kombat.  Petitions and protests and boycotts aplenty back then too. Didn't like it then.  Don't like it now.