We've all been through this before with Jack Thompson and just like him, this is nothing but a hack job.
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Replying to @Blaze33405 @ShirrakoGaming and
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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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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