By Kate Gray
Sometimes I’d like to send people on the internet back to school. It’s usually when they’ve fundamentally misunderstood the meaning of a word: irony, feminism, censorship, funny. A lot of people seem to learn the alphabet, figure out how to put it together and then consider themselves sorted, because censorship is not, and has never been, a word that means “changing something you did for different audiences”. Censorship is having someone else change those for you, against your will – the suppression of what you wanted to say.
If I had a great anecdote about running naked through the woods like a bear, and I told all my friends and they loved it, I could still decide not to tell the internet. That’s not censorship.
There have been a couple of stories recently that have been labelled by some as “censorship” – the first was Dead or Alive’s developers deciding not to release their boob-tastic volleyball game, DoA Xtreme 3, in the West; the second was a story about Fire Emblem Fates’ release in the West having certain scenes removed.
It’s muddy, but I’ll try to explain: there’s a gay female character in the game who can become attracted to your character, despite …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming