Boiling frog

I'm using Ecosia, though I may be switching to Qwant later down the road. Both are European engines, but with a different focus (Ecosia uses the money generated by the searches to plant trees whilst Qwant is very privacy focused).

Yeah it's a case where the slippery slope argument is completely valid. Freedom of expression in general is by far one of the most important freedoms out there so it should really be protected a lot better than it is currently.

Or you know, there are parental controls for minors available, and the game can more clearly warn than it already does on its page about the intense themes.
Google has every right to do this legally, but I don't think it's a good idea.

It's google store they have the right to ban it. It's their freedom I guess

I don't see the problem. If you want it you can buy it other stores

Until other stores fall in line with the censorship brigade and games start being banned across all platforms if they contain anything the mob are offended by, from adult themes to sexuality to LGBT content to violence and so on.

Steam, Nintendo, and Sony have already started dabbling in censoring adult games, and it's already escalated from banning porn games to now non-porn games.

They are private companies, they can decide what they sell. Isn't this the most basic principles of free market? 

As long it's not the state baning the games, there is no problem here to be solved 

Grown adults should be allowed to play what they want instead of being dictated to by corporations who are in the pocket of lobbyists and authoritarians.

"But companies are allowed to" is a shitty argument, all sorts of heinous things corporations took part in and enforced were legally right. 12 year old kids working 16 hour shifts in coal mines was once normal because it suited the companies in charge. 

Well, they are no longer legal because there are laws that prevent it. If you want to create laws that mandate every store to sell every game, you can start a political movement and try to shape public opinion so politicians will vote for it, that's how democracies work

Until then, companies can decide what they sell, just as publishers can decide where they sell. There is no law stating that you can't sell your game independently, so if a studio wants to sell its games on its own website, it can and you can buy them there

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.