They're gaining more ground because we concede it constantly. You're arguing in favour of this censorship here from Sony, because fighting against it would, in your opinion, make you look like a "sex-crazed maniac". Constantly conceding every little battle about censorship means that one day, it becomes too far gone, and you've lost all rights. It should be vocally and financially opposed at every turn, even in trite cases like this. It's the only way to maintain free speech and individual rights.
to play mr. lawman for a moment: this isn't censorship, just a business making a poor business decision.
to play myself again: "first they came for the titties, then they came for the political dissidents" is missing a few steps. i'm personally a fan of the slippery slope theorem, but only when connections can actually be drawn between point A and point Z. none can be drawn here.
you could argue that this, er, vaguely gets people used to having things away from them, but nobody who is censored or truly worries about censorship (like we gamers, who dearly miss our Hard R :( ) will take you seriously when you show up and go "i know what it's like to be oppressed, they covered up my waifu's cleavage in a day 1 patch."
if this Stellar Blade crap had been one post with a few guys going "dang, unfortunate" in the comments it'd be whatever, but there are downright manhours being spent getting outraged and passionately positively ANGRY at some cleavage being taken away, citing human rights to freedom and all that is good and right upon Mother Earth and whatever the hell and it's like, dude, could any of you spend this much effort on anything that makes sense?
or am i simply speaking to teenagers who haven't grown up yet, and who will move on from their sex-related obsessions with time? there are so many better battles to be fought.
They're gaining more ground because we concede it constantly. You're arguing in favour of this censorship here from Sony, because fighting against it would, in your opinion, make you look like a "sex-crazed maniac". Constantly conceding every little battle about censorship means that one day, it becomes too far gone, and you've lost all rights. It should be vocally and financially opposed at every turn, even in trite cases like this. It's the only way to maintain free speech and individual rights.
to play mr. lawman for a moment: this isn't censorship, just a business making a poor business decision.
to play myself again: "first they came for the titties, then they came for the political dissidents" is missing a few steps. i'm personally a fan of the slippery slope theorem, but only when connections can actually be drawn between point A and point Z. none can be drawn here.
you could argue that this, er, vaguely gets people used to having things away from them, but nobody who is censored or truly worries about censorship (like we gamers, who dearly miss our Hard R :( ) will take you seriously when you show up and go "i know what it's like to be oppressed, they covered up my waifu's cleavage in a day 1 patch."
if this Stellar Blade crap had been one post with a few guys going "dang, unfortunate" in the comments it'd be whatever, but there are downright manhours being spent getting outraged and passionately positively ANGRY at some cleavage being taken away, citing human rights to freedom and all that is good and right upon Mother Earth and whatever the hell and it's like, dude, could any of you spend this much effort on anything that makes sense?
or am i simply speaking to teenagers who haven't grown up yet, and who will move on from their sex-related obsessions with time? there are so many better battles to be fought.