The laws are sometimes silly, I know we can´t do anything about them, but that does not mean we can´t point out the fact about how silly it is. I don´t actually think people understand the sarcasm in my post! Most of us don´t want a game overly censored due to regional or national laws in a few countries/regions, in those situations, we will simply have to see a censored version in that affected area! That is my point. If anything is censored (which is pure speculation though) it's because they are overly cautious. So their behavior is perfectly understandable from an economic perspective Even if they are ultimately right, the game would be banned first and then unbanned again. Legal cases cost a lot of money and time. But of course with so much money at stake they err in the side of caution and censor. With the increased acceptance of video games into mainstream culture, there is a good chance that they'd be put on the same level as movies. A specifically educational game on the other hand could probably get away with using Nazi symbols these days.Īnd if a publisher were to actually gamble and risk a court case they'd probably win. The issue is more that video games aren't legally considered art, so there is no exception for them. Movies have no issues because they are always considered art. Except for certain cases like education, documentation and art. It's that the use of Nazi symbols is banned in general. Click to expand.A lot of this stuff is more about self-censorship in the face of ambiguous laws rather than what is strictly demandedĬontrary to what many people think there is no law explicitly banning videos games from using swastikas.
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