“All Steam Games With LGBTQ+ Content Blocked From Release in China and Russia Due to Local Bigorty Laws Limiting Such Content”
Funny how rearranging a few words can shift blame around. Thanks, Fascist propagandists, and their collaborators.
“All Steam Games With LGBTQ+ Content Blocked From Release in China and Russia Due to Local Bigorty Laws Limiting Such Content”
Funny how rearranging a few words can shift blame around. Thanks, Fascist propagandists, and their collaborators.
I mean, I guess it's better than all of Steam being blocked like it has been in the past. Not really their fault. Gaming is really frowned on my the Chinese government in general since it's harder to control the subject matter than with videos that can just be scanned for key words and blocked or edited. But sucks that they even have an LGBTQ+ classification at all. Even if it may have originally been to help LGBTQ+ people find inclusive media, it's obvious that those kinds of things are always used for censorship more than inclusivity. The flags should instead be on the anti-LGBTQ+ content, not regular, inclusive of real society content.
Fuck valve and the gamers who simp for Gabe. One man can change this if he wasn't a greedy cunt.
I think Fuck China and Fuck Russia would be more useful responses to this.
Different countries have different laws, should not be a surprise. If you want to make business there you follow the laws. Same as the reason why mobiles now all have USB-C, laws in the EU. Or why you can decline to have your data collected (if any website doesn't just ignore your choice) because of Laws in some country.
Is it terrible that a country is violating, what we consider human rights? yes.
Fuck you. God forbid valve make less money and not sell games where they are knowingly supporting this fuckery. Fuck Gabe, fuck Valve, fuck the stupid gamers that will continuously mindlessly supporting him buying more yachts, and fuck you for trying to defend his behavior. Gaymer class traitor.
Oh, I hate Gaben/Steam/Valve for this crap! Just don't follow these stupid "laws" and get blocked. Then allow people from these countries to change country in their profiles. People in China and Russia use VPN ether way.
So hand over an extremely lucrative market to a competitor who's willing to obey a sovereign nations laws?
I've got no problem here. It might've only been temporarily blocked. LGBTQ+ stuff isn't illegal in China, just porn. Unfortunately for steam most games with the LGBTQ+ tag also have the NSFW or Hentai tags, which are blocked.
But searching with the LGBTQ+ tag seems to work at this point.
Yet the LGBTQ+ content in Guild Wars 2 was still stripped out in China :/
I'm not able to find any information on that, can you post a source? The closest I've found is GW2 just censoring LGBTQ+ content globally.
Its been a while so I'm rusty but I found this reddit link from the time
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/tawl48/the_scene_of_jory_and_kas_at_the_end_of_eods/
Weird that thread's no longer there on Tieba, but since I don't play the game and can't find any other reference I'll assume it's real. Foreign companies do tend to get the weirdest advice to pass NPPA and they were a lot more strict in order to encourage domestic competition even just a few years ago, like the 'skulls' censorship in blizzard games.
I can say safely though there are plenty of Chinese made NPPA approved games with LGBT representation, just like there are plenty of skulls.
Once again, eat the rich. Until not everybody is free, no one is free.
Unfortunately in a lot of places anti-lgbtq isn't necessarily a class war, that is it's more of a culture war.
Usually a culture war started to distract from the class war
I wouldn't say that, usually they start organically from what I've seen. It's more so that they are blown up into much bigger issues than they actually are by those seeking power whether that be to attack a group or to galvanize their base. Starting a culture war out of thin air is nearly impossible. Like imagine getting people to fight over which end to crack an egg.
You can easily tell people that being trans is a sin or some shit and watch the religious poor people fight the trans people instead of the rich
Yeah but it's not like that tension came from nowhere whatsoever. There was already some tension there even without any media. Now it becoming a national or global conversation for years upon years is very arguably overblown as compared to home much natural tension was there and how important the issue actually is in the scheme of things.
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