And I can agree none of this is really causing harm, rather it’s still a disturbing notion that’s much too prevalent in the spread of the media. It’s not something that should be glorified, really.

Remember, that whole drug gay conversion scene must have had enough people there reading it and think it’s an okay thing to write before hitting that public backlash.

“I feel the real problem is why are devs making teenage targeted games still including risque content of any kind still a thing?”

I think they’re calling it “censorship” due to it involving sexual content being removed for moral reasons, rather than artistic or technical ones.

“The petting mini-game is one of the most nonsensical and creepiest things I’ve seen in a game.”

Responses like what? I think most of the comments about “SJWs”are in reference to those calling people sexist for thinking that this is a pointless mod.

Actually those mods also get mocked all the time. Have you read the comments on Nexus mods?

Yeah, it’s just another dopey mod. I think a lot of people just see it as creepy or weird to see someone who has so much trouble relating to a character of the opposite gender that they would mod the game. Any mods that changes black characters to look white (and these do exist!) tend to get the same reactions. I…

Not *any* internal change. I referred specifically to internal changes prompted by external moral pressure. This description applies to the most widespread acts of censorship in the American 20th century, such as the aforementioned Hollywood blacklists and the CCA.

But nice pivot to personal insults over what was a…

A lot of people called that mod dumb. I’m not sure why the mockery of weird mods is suprising to people

If they make the change due to external moral pressures, then yeah it’s censorship. Kind of like how the victims of the old Hollywood blacklists who were told to remove any allusion to homosexuality from their scripts if they ever wanted to work in the industry. Not *technically* censorship, since it was creators…

So, take a moment to reflect on how some careful wording got you to blame some heinous crimes on the wrong people, with zero evidence needed.

Well, it wouldn’t be a coincidence if there were any instances of GG members encouraging, organizing, or instructing each other to send threats. But there aren’t any. The few who did acted on their own and can be counted on one hand.

Who are you quoting? Whoever thought to write that sure sounds dumb

I mean, who else would threaten a pro-choice politician? Certainly not the legions of conservatives who compared her to literal Nazis for visiting a Planned Parenthood. Ironically, there are people on the internet right now accusing her of faking the threat, and they aren’t GG.

So called “ethics in games journalism” has nothing to do with a woman’s sex life, genius, it has to do with whether or not she received positive reviews in exchange for sex.

Oh wow, did you actually read the article? It outright says it wasn’t GamerGate:

“Because of all the documented threads where self described GamerGaters discussed and planned swatting attacks?”

Holy crow, look at all this projection. Who’s hateful again? Also, the ZoePost that started this made zero mention of reviews. By all means try reading it.

You should be, because it would be a first for them.