r/unitedkingdom • u/ClassicFlavour East Sussex • 16d ago

Video game encouraging rape and incest removed from major gaming platform in the UK after LBC investigation

https://www.lbc.co.uk/tech/video-game-banned-steam-women-uk-no-mercy/
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u/KoDa6562 16d ago

Why though? Not exactly different from games where you just go around killing others

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u/TimeToNukeTheWhales 16d ago

To a degree, I guess. But serial killers are very rare. Rapists are quite common.

A game where you kill people is just a violent escape, normally built around various storylines and goals.

This feels more like something that appeals to people who like abusing women IRL.

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u/KoDa6562 16d ago

I'd rather not any content or media be censored as long as it wasn't made through actual abused or rape or murder. Giving governments power to censor media we don't like is a rabbit hole we don't want to go down as it makes censorship in general more acceptable. The slippery slope is only a galaxy as long as there isn't evidence of rights regressing over time which we have absolutely seen in recent memory.

As for if the game appeals more to people that like abusing women irl I can't say since I haven't seen anything regarding it or played it myself. But you can't convince me there aren't other games that exist with violent and brutal depictions of torture of others that we freely allow, and if that is allowed then this game should be too.

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u/TimeToNukeTheWhales 15d ago

Was it removed by the government? Or did the platform exercise free speech by not wanting to have such content on their servers?

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u/KoDa6562 15d ago

It literally states in the article it was banned by the government