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

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Chrkeller said:

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There's nothing stopping a storefront from simply delisting a game with LGBT content and citing "adult themes" or "sensitive topics" as the reason, since it's technically not discriminating against a real person.

Sexual references or themes in teen media has not really been controversial outside of hardcore conservative circles in decades, even in the 90s it was mainstream.

If this was really about the content itself, Google would simply have refused to approve the game when it arrived on their storefront last year. But they did approve it, and sold it on their storefront for months. The game's content did not change in that time.

Your original claim was LBGT could be "refused" service because of this.

Wrong.  

If you want to rework your position, fair.  But claiming refusal to serve based in race is the same as not selling a videogame...  no.  Just no.

You misunderstood my post; my claim was that refusing to serve people based on race or gender, as was once the norm in Western society, is the sort of unethical practises you get if you let companies "do business the way they want" without oversight. Letting companies just do as they please because "it's legal" or "they're a private business, they can do whatever they want" is a terrible idea as they inevitably screw over everyone. 

Have you watched almost any teen drama made in the last 30 years? Sex hasn't been taboo in a very long time.