This is not Jack Thompson trying to ban all violent video games. This is a company banning one video on YouTube because its creator specifically advocated for political violence under the guise of it being a joke. You're comparison is extremely lofty.
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Replying to @DouggieJones @Blaze33405 and
This isn't a condemnation of RDR2. This is a condemnation of 1 person. Anything goes, but this one person behaved in a deeply shitty way. He isn't owed anything from YouTube either.
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Replying to @DouggieJones @ShirrakoGaming and
Shitty things have been done in these sorts of games for a long time. Worse if anything. Difference is that people like myself understand that this is fiction and losing your mind/calling something advocating X is retarded since those that do have lost touch with reality
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Replying to @Blaze33405 @ShirrakoGaming and
Of course it's fiction, but when you use a work of fiction to push political messages and advocate for violence against real people, then you're taking a work of fiction and applying it to the real world. Fiction does not exist in a vacuum. It never has. Stop being naive.
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Replying to @DouggieJones @ShirrakoGaming and
I don't think i'm the one being naive here. I just have my priorities straightened out and know that crying about someone treating a fictional character badly for their fictional views is idiotic. Hopefully he gets his channel back. Youtube's decision is wrong.
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Replying to @Blaze33405 @ShirrakoGaming and
Nobody is "crying about someone treating a fictional character badly". We're condemning a person for using a video game to promote violence against feminists (see the title of the original video and the comments) and how this is a much broader issue.
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Replying to @DouggieJones @Blaze33405 and
What's naive is doubling down on this uncritical insistence that because something is fiction, it can't be used in a damaging way. Would you extend that rationale to religious texts and the wars waged on the backs of them? If not, then you're being inconsistent.
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Replying to @DouggieJones @Blaze33405 and
The problem isn't the work of fiction itself, it's the person who is using that work of fiction to spread a particular message to an audience who are clearly stirred up by it. This is a condemnation of one person based on their actions. Not anything to do with gaming specifically
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Replying to @DouggieJones @Blaze33405 and
The people really "crying" is this guy for getting booted off of a platform for perpetuating what clearly violates YouTube's terms of service.
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Replying to @DouggieJones @Blaze33405 and
But due to the preasure of promoting "problematic ideas", as if there was a message in the first place, just a search "Gta IV : Hospital massacre" and tell me how that video promotes mass shotings
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The game doesn't promote mass shootings, and neither does somebody filming the game footage. You're being disingenuous because you think you're making some grand point about hypocrisy in media when all you're doing is showing that you don't understand context one iota.
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Replying to @DouggieJones @Blaze33405 and
Therefore the video promotes violence against feminists as much as "GTA IV: hospital massacre" promotes mass shootings
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