No, you simply dont understand what censorship is. Id try to explain again except it would fall on deaf ears, again.
And im surprised you can even think straight enought to type with that airplane flying over your head. Heck,you arent even grasping the concept of gatekeepers... you say that punk did well even with cassettes, fully missing that this was exactly my point, that cassettes were when we could first truly escape gate keepers in the music industry.
We never needed quality gatekeepers, and that you can see this in other industries that already went through these growing pains decades ago. You were the one defending quality control gatekeepers, remember?
You want so badly for everyone to fall in line with your views, and you are so sure you are just, that you wont even try to understand the very words you use. Enjoy your high horse.
I still dont even know what this game is about beyond its title, and i dont care. I see you up in arms about it, villifying it, and i dont care. It pixels and a pov, just like every other game. Maybe its good, maybe its trash, I do not care. But banning it from the storefront of the most popular console is textbook censorship, period. That you celebrate it and defend it as some sirt of quality control while pretending corporate censorship of a product you dont like is justified and a good [and therefore not censorship] as opposed to govt censorship, is laughable.
If you want to support removing products you hate from storefronts, by all means, do so. But own it. Understand you want to be the gatekeeper, understand that you are defending and supporting the role of the censor... because you and yours can view and judge safely, and then decide if others can handle it or not. Protect us, please.
You don't know what this game is about beyond its title? What if I told you this game had you playing as a Nazi pedophile pulling levers in a gas chamber to kill Jewish children? I assume you would still defend it in this
exact way, since your argument
apparently doesn't care about the content of the game, it only cares about whether someone is trying to censor something that is otherwise legal! So let's just imagine, from here on out, that your arguments are an attempt to defend
that kind of game, since you keep pretending that the content is irrelevant.
In any case, the only
meaning to be found is that Sony will 1) lose no money and 2) win a small PR victory. If you want Sony to keep this game on their platform, show to them it has monetary value worth the cost of the bad publicity. Here's a hint: it won't because it's a shit game. Banning the game is "good" and "justified"
for Sony, as a company that wants to make money by having a positive public image. Sorry if that offends your purist sensibilities, but that's how public companies operate - by having fairly strict guidelines and cultural norms to make their image most appealing toward their user base. Sony also doesn't allow AO games on their storefront - CENSORSHIP!!! Cue my eye roll. And your continued refusal to understand the significant difference between a company rejecting a product (which allows it to exist in other places), and the government banning a product (which doesn't allow it to exist in other places), is continually amazing. It's a free market: go to the place that allows your product if you want that product so badly.
And for the second (and hopefully last) time,
I'm not removing anything from a store front,
I'm not censoring anything,
I'm not protecting anyone from anything. It's hilarious you think I'm the CEO of Sony. I defend the "role of the censor" because I defend a company's right to do whatever the fuck the want with their own storefront, especially if it's in their best interest, which this decision
clearly was.
Sorry, but I don't have the time to meticulously comb threads for all the times the "other place" has warned or banned extreme leftists. All I can say is that, anecdotally, I've seen warnings and bans given to leftists fairly frequently when they get absurd, and the bans and warnings I do see are pretty well justified all around. The leftists probably have their own collection of "Look at how unfair this place is!" imgur screengrabs for all I know. As I've said, I've done a good amount of pushback on liberal positions there already and have yet to get a single warning or ban - but I'm also careful to word my arguments in meaningful, honest ways. Most of the screengrabs I see in your link are poorly phrased, edgelord level commentary, typically with multiple warnings already on their account. Color me unimpressed.