Once a scattered conflict, now a global crisis - censorship invasion underway

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How censorship has afflicted the world in recent times

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A dark age of information looms, and only through our combined efforts can we stop it.
https://x.com/NEO_NoiseBomb/status/1950672964011057650
 
Politicians are afraid of getting caught by the lynch mob, or that people at large learn how the economic system really works and mass switch into gold, sliver and bitcoin. Also the Epstein, Maxwell, Obama, Soros, Fink, etc stuff and the mass migration aka invasion and replacement that everybody wanted gatekept ever since the no global protests. The protests are getting nuclear everywhere in Europe. The more people know, the more people understand they are not the only individuals to have massive problems, so they join togheter and create problems for the "governments" both online and offline. Too late, nothing can stop this anymore.




Also remember, people have power.

https://blog.jlist.com/news/blue-archive-takes-down-korean-rating-board/
 
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This week, in Brazil, there's been a progressivist YouTuber that made a video denouncing videos sexualizing minors. Now the whole left wing is proposing multiple laws trying to impose censorship online, some even including required ID and face verification to use social media.
The right wing, together with portions of the centrists, are proposing laws that will tackle child sexualization specifically, in general, and avoid any possible censorship.
 
Someone (((noticed))) this fag hag from Sweet Baby Games who's a fucking middle manager at VISA is releasing an (((award-winning))) game about smuggling illegal immigrants into the united states
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game about smuggling illegal immigrants into the united states
What's next, a video game about illegal incest or illegal rape? Someone should contact Steam's payment processors right now. I apologize for the sarcasm; it was quite rude. However, I watched the Chibi Reviews video, and it rubbed me the wrong way with his flippant fiction scapegoating.


From 3:01 to 3:17, "Visa is working with activist groups and Microsoft to make a game called Take Us North that encourages illegal immigration into the US that gets people hurt, killed, or honestly trafficked and turned into slaves, which is insane."

From 9:11 to 9:22, "But the point is, is that this game tries to encourage illegal migration, showcasing maybe the dangers or the emotional journey of it, but also how it's potentially a good thing."

This is supposed to be the guy defending fiction against censorship? If he felt objectionable content in anime was icky or gained a new real-life ideology, he would quickly turn against Japanese fiction.

For their open call to craft emails against Steam and itch.io towards payment processors, here are arguments Collective Shout made against rape and incest games[1]:
We've put some points you can make here:

Rape and incest games:
- Reinforce male sexual entitlement to women and children's bodies
- Put women and girls at risk
- Fuel attitudes that perpetuate real crimes of violence against women
- Destroy empathy
(I argue against Collective Shout's points, while responding to the whole controversy, here: [Varis post #12 in thread])

I suppose just replace rape and incest games with illegal immigration games, and suddenly different sects clap and agree.

Even pointing out an alleged hypocrisy within those supporting Take Us North isn't a gotcha. Supporters of the game would just outright argue in support of non-violent illegal immigrants in real life. Under their fiction-scapegoating premise, rape and incest fiction cannot be defended unless you're willing to defend the associated real-life actions. Flippantly accepting the premise that fiction can encourage harm loses the entire war. It starts the conversation on the side of content restrictions against fiction.

Where the fuck is the United States' Yamada Taro (@yamadataro43 on X) Akamatsu Ken (@kenakamatsu on X), and Kurishita Zenko (@zkurishi on X; he speaks English)? Everyone from the U.S. in media and politics is seemingly just a fucking grifter! :gura-pain:
 
too long, didn't read

this bitch deserves everything coming to her and more just for being in sweet baby inc nevermind the rest of it
 
I find it incredibly frustrating how many people are suddenly anti-censorship when previously they were cheering on the censorship. It's most egregious because the arguments are literally the same "it harms women", "it's legal but still bad" and so on. The same talking points anime games got hit with more than a decade ago leading to Sony enforcing stricter publishing standards. But different people have uttered those words and in the world of online political theatre, who says something matters much more than what is actually being said.

Censorship your political side pushes? Absolutely based, justified, necessary to save society. Censorship the opposing political side wants? End of civilisation as we know it, fully haram, unacceptable.

There was a time in gaming where the gaming community, gaming media, developers and publishers acted pretty much as one: all censorship was bad and was fought against, only begrudgingly accepting it when legal avenues were exhausted and there was hard law standing in the way of an uncensored release. Even then, many developers would help by making it easy to reserve the censorship, media would give pointers where to get uncensor patches and so on. Everyone seemed to understand that in a creative medium like gaming, censorship kills - and even the science painted a clear picture of game content not having an impact on real life.

And then debates started to be had. Not creative debates, debates about how to improve gaming, how to help gaming evolve beyond. It were debates aimed at reducing - reducing ways of expressing things, reducing art styles, reducing kinds of games that were supposed to be made. And the media gladly platformed and pushed these people, game publishers suddenly hired these people to pre-censor their games and even the gaming public kept going "lol who cares, it's slop" or "gooner games getting hit? who cares?".

And now we are here. Damage has been done. Even Japan has pretty much fallen. At least in the "good timeline" we always had an undiluted source to go back to. It might have been a difficult path, involving learning moon runes or finding translation patches, changing your PC settings to allow you to play JP games, whatever - but there was a source of truth. But now, even during the earliest stages of development, someone is whispering into the ears of many developers, telling them that if they want to reach beyond the Japanese islands they must add this, remove that, rewrite this, hire they/them.

We are pretty much in the worst timeline. Ironically, it's Chinese and Korean made gacha games that retain original creativity because activists, gaming media and similar have little to no influence - it's the only gaming space where the word of your typical gamer still matters, because that word is expressed with money and removing content to "reach a broader audience" might get you a few more downloads, but if you lose a single whale and get 10000 global non-spenders instead, you will see the cold hard truth when looking at the financial statements.

Ultimately, I do hope we reach the point where the gaming industry burns down. Maybe we will reach a point where in 10 years, an AI can develop the game of your dreams?
 
AI won't be able to develop a game by itself. But I could already use AI art to produce a VN or RPG with Godot if I was motivated. I even have a lot of music equipment, though it's not set up. If you guys wanted to we could start a project
 
AI won't be able to develop a game by itself. But I could already use AI art to produce a VN or RPG with Godot if I was motivated. I even have a lot of music equipment, though it's not set up. If you guys wanted to we could start a project
Don't forget the part where an AI-generated game might not get 1st amendment protections, since it's not a form of human expression.
 
Don't forget the part where an AI-generated game might not get 1st amendment protections, since it's not a form of human expression.
The SCOTUS ruled that art not made by humans such as AI art is immune from copyright law. With that said, retards like Soyny will abuse the DMCA whenever they feel like it.
 
that's not an impediment to sony or anyone who uses AI art during the creation of a video game or artistic work

if a human being touched it it's a transformative work and therefore protected by copyright
 
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