Rightey wrote:On to the other point, you have to be trolling now. Are you seriously trying to use some "won't someone think of the children" bullshit to justify banning anime games?
what a joke.
I'm fully against the blanket ban Valve implemented on pornographic content. That article states the NCOSE now opposes the new decision to moderate nothing as it gives free reign to a an increasing number of games that involve sexual exploitation.
Rightey wrote:Hmm... Perhaps we could have a system and have people determine, or "judge" if you will if something incites hate. You know, kind of like we do now.
Again, which people? The users? That's a useless metric to judge anything by as it's so open to gaming of the systems. Again look at Twitter.
I will defend freedom of speech.
An argument increasingly utilised by the extreme right. As, for some reason, this needs to be repeatedly pointed out: freedom of speech does not allow for freedom of consequence.
Also, as several people have pointed out, this isn't about censorship. You're introducing an irrelevant argument to buoy your reasonings.
Let's take that example Karl posted earlier with the Active Shooter game. I never played, it but in the image the BBC put on the store page it says you can play as both the shooter and SWAT. What if, and again I'm just making stuff up here, there was a level set in a mall and as the SWAT you had to deal with the shooter but there were other civilians with guns who tried to take down the shooter? Something like that might make people re-consider the whole a "good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun so everyone should have guns" argument.
Should a game like that still be banned?
Maybe. It would depend, strangely enough, on more than a high level breakdown like you one you just gave. What is the tone of the game? What are the game's narrative leanings? Is it a glorification of the situations it contains, as the school shooter game was, or was it more tactical experience like the SWAT games? CoD let you shoot up an airport but the tone behind the game was clear: this is wrong. It hasn't been banned.
Know how these subtle differences could be sussed out? Moderation.