What changed from my heydays of blasting undead monsters in Doom is that the counter-offensive: 'It's just fiction', doesn't rings true to me anymore. I found this theory to be extremely offensive when I was a teen, and now that I'm pushing 50 I still fecking do. I've always been a huge horror buff and a gamer, and I know what is like to be at the receiving end of the good old tripe 'fictional nasty things will corrupt our minds'. I grown up in a time that condemned many things that nowadays are regarded as acceptable, while condoning others that are considered appalling today. So, in the end finding a compromise between what should or shouldn't be socially acceptable is really all we got. Censorship is never the answer, if not for anything else for the mere fact that it doesn't works: sweeping the problem under the carpet won't make it go away, and while hidden from the public gaze it may get worse. Not being a spring chicken myself I've met it several time, from Nabokov's Lolita to the first Carmageddon, the question you are asking yourself (and your readers) 'Where do you draw the line?' has been around for a while.Īs it happens, is also the only question that matters in this kind of business. This is a very old dilemma indeed, and spread across multiple mediums at that. I’m not sure how laws work in this situation (again, not a lawyer) but if you’re in one of those countries, you may be able to report it to the authorities In some countries, even simulated child porn is illegal. I don’t think it should be EAs direct responsibility, but if there’s a way for people to report a user or website for disturbing content so EA could take action - like deactivating their account or maybe a cease and desist to take down the content? (Idk I’m not a lawyer). That reduces visibility but can you stop someone from making their own website? What if someone just makes a mod for themselves and doesn’t share it? How would anyone know?

The “reputable” repository websites for mods/cc won’t host such content.

I’ve seen forums/servers ostracize creators and refuse to help troubleshoot if a player has content from those creators. When it comes to really disturbing content (like rape, child abuse, etc), at least from what I’ve seen, the community most human beings won’t support it. but what else can EA do? Would anything more than that be their responsibility? The easiest way would be to ban all of it and no one wants that. Not sure how they would know since they say they don’t screen or support any mods/cc. The article says such content violates the user agreement and users can be punished/banned for it.

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