Google bans Doki Doki Literature Club from their store due to "sensitive themes"

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Hot Take: If a privately-owned distribution site does not find a product to match their values, then they should have every right to not offer the product on their storefront.

Doki Doki not being on Google Play doesn’t mean the game ceases to be for sale— all that means is Google won’t make the game as accessible as it once was. (Though if Doki was only available through the Google Play Store, then that’s more of an issue regarding consolidation of market power rather than a company rejecting a product.) This isn’t censorship but an exercise of Google’s rights.