Nintendo fires treehouse member Alison Rapp

[mornelithe]

Hiku said:

mornelithe said:

Then you didn't read the article linked:

"Criminalising the the possession of a type of media - whether violent video games... controversial political or religious texts, or child pornography - is tantamount to criminalising thought, and should be above countries like the U.S. and Japan who have such strong freedom of speech protections."

Now, she may have 'meant' fictional, but in her thesis as the article states she jumps between fictional and real.  And at times it's unclear what she means.  But it's certainly statements like the above that give the impression she's not making a distinction between real or fictional. 

This is what I read in the linked article: "Rapp, clearly a respectful fan of Japanese culture, distinguishes between exploiting real-life children and the creation of fictionalized sexual material. At no point does she defend or advocate for the abuse of children, and in fact argues for stronger laws against child exploitation."
http://kotaku.com/the-ugly-new-front-in-the-neverending-video-game-cultur-1762942381#_ga=1.135394866.2031715201.1447537439

I personally haven't analyzed her thesis, but from someone who did, that's how they interprited it.

You don't have to analyze it, I provided a direct quote from her Thesis.  You provided a synopsis from Kotaku, setting aside the fact that Stephen Totilo is on video saying he didn't find journalistic ethics to be particularly important (this is the Editor in Chief of Kotaku), the large volumes of ethical breaches at Kotaku, and that Kotaku's parent company Gawker just got bitchslapped by a Judge for journalistic ethics violations (which may end the parent company), I'm surprised you find a secondary synposis, over what the person in question write.   Call me crazy, but I'm going to go with what she actually wrote.