I wasn't saying Steam banning the game was censorship. That is just Steam being inconsistent with their policy and it isn't even the first time, they've done this many times and most of the games being visual novels. By censorship, I was referring it to the people advocating to make such types of games immoral and illegal which clearly is a censorship of artistic creativity. Free speech means the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. Iincitement, true threats, and fighting words isn't protected under freedom of speech as exceptions have been made for speech that violates the legal rights of others, or because of compelling governmental interests.
The main thing that got it taken down was the wide media coverage stirring it up and a culture that these days rewards people for taking a side without hearing or caring to hear others opinions and having a knee jerk reaction to anything with trigger words in it. My stance has always been if you don't like it avoid it. No one is forcing you to look at it or play it.
This is the correct response, but the people advocating against it are ideologues and pawns of ideologues. They don't agree with it so they want it banned, they don't see it as a free market issue, but cultivation theory, they believe the content is sinful and will corrupt the mind.
No one is defending the game specifically. People are just pointing out the fact that Steam is being inconsistent with their policy and it isn't even the first time, they've done this many times and most of the games being visual novels. By censorship, They're referring it to the people advocating to make such types of games immoral and illegal which clearly is a censorship of artistic creativity.
That's because only "truly vile" games get attention from the media and SJWs starts advocating to censor it. In the past, people have advocated to censor games like GTA as well, I'll assume you know how it ended.
You mean the time that BOTH sides of the political aisle wanted to ban it because they thought it would score them points with their constituents? You'll also notice that like everything else politicians have tried to ban that isn't straight up criminal went absolutely nowhere, plus that example is piss poor since at that point esrb was already in effect specifically to serve as self-regulation. Kind of like y'know removing a game called "Rape Day" in an asinine attempt to make up for the fact that they auto approve any dev who ponies up the cash.
I find it more disturbing that this poster is blaming the developer -- who didn't break any rules -- rather than Valve for contradicting their own stance and doing what they said they wouldn't do.
Why would I blame Valve for removing a game called Rape Day from a platform used by families?
What does families have to do with a game that was behind an age gate?
So you mention families and in the next sentence you mention that adult games were allowed?
I'll let you have this one. The earth being flat is "common sense" on some forums and there seems to be a lot of people here who seem to have issues comprehending anything Valve has actually said. So there might be a group of people without the cognitive ability to understand this isn't a policy change.
