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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.New Zealand bans video game glorifying Christchurch mosque shooting
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Norman Goodman
Censorship with a clear and mandatory warning label is okay.
Censorship with deletions and bans is not.
This should be obvious to all.
WilliB
What does "appeared to glorify" mean here? Is anything glorified, or not? And how does a game glorify anything?
Who does the player in a shootup game have an assigned skin color? The player is whoever plays this. What does this even mean?
How is a shootup game "white" and "extremist"? All shootup games let the players shoot up various figures, so should they all be banned as "extremist"?
The whole political action described in this waffling article seems designed to promote a particular political point. No, we should not agree with political censorship by our bai zuo elites.
rainyday
Do you even understand what a video game is? Like you think if you play Super Mario Bros, Mario is going to look like you? No no no....
When it makes the first person shooter a white supremacist and the aim of the game is to kill all the non-white people, which is what the article states this game was. Very simple to understand I would think.
Er....the political point being that racist mass-murder rampages are a bad thing?
I'm totally comfortable with that political point.
Nobnaga
well i don't know anything about this game but if he's say that it's about what happen in chch i would i agree that they should ban it
Norman Goodman
Yep. That's what it says. Did the writer even directly see the game? Think deeply about that one.
Not that I am going to trust the unidentified writer at Reuters mind you....not even a pseudonym to go by. Think deeply about that one too.
rainyday
The guy who said "In this game, anyone who isn’t a white heterosexual male is a target for simply existing" certainly seems to have seen it. If the game is illegal, it would be hard for the writer to have seen it, I wouldn't say that every news article about a crime can only be written by someone who actually witnessed the crime.
(Thinks deeply).....wait, what am I supposed to be thinking about in this context? You think this is some sort of conspiracy by Reuters to destroy the reputation of a video game that isn't even named? Or what? If you've got a delusional conspiracy theory you have to actually spell it out for normal people to understand what on Earth you are talking about rather than just using innuendo.
Haaa Nemui
I’m not sure how the chief censor’s words suddenly become the words of the author of the article. I’m thinking pretty deeply about that.
juminRhee
I sure hope they banned that alien v humans game where the player is an alien committing not just genocide, but speciecide against whole human race. Totally unacceptable. Or Mario Bro where Mario and Luigi kill massive amounts of goombas - little brown people...
juminRhee
Instead of just downvoting, how about actually telling me why you think free speech is bad?
Black Sabbath
Chief Censor.
I am happy that I live in a country that has no such office.
extanker
I doubt it would be very hard.
Black Sabbath
That's what she said.
Toasted Heretic
What sick and depraved mind could come up with such a game?
Toasted Heretic
This is not that game. This is turning a real life massacre into entertainment.