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US rep asks Valve to remove ‘Oct. 7’ game from Steam (www.polygon.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

  1. It has been removed in the EU on behalf of french anti-terrorist authorities. So this is an actual terrorism-concern and not just censorship.

  2. hey, a fellow linux user. Long-time or recent?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It has been removed in the EU on behalf of french anti-terrorist authorities. So this is an actual terrorism-concern and not just censorship.

Any support for Palestine is being called "terrorist" these days, so I'd rather make the judgment call for myself.

hey, a fellow linux user. Long-time or recent?

Been using Linux for 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Any support for Palestine is being called “terrorist” these days, so I’d rather make the judgment call for myself.

So what is your judgment call? Was the October 7th attack terrorism or not?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you think Palestine sprung into existence on October 7? Why does every discussion of Israel being genocidal colonizers come down to an incident that happened decades after their oppression of Palestine began?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Do you think Palestine sprung into existence on October 7?

No. I think most people know that Israel and Palestine were both established by the League of Nations back in the 40s post the fall of the Ottoman Empire, after which they proceeded to start fighting each other for fucking decades of pointless holy wars.

I'm not sure how that's relevant to the discussion at hand, however.

Why does every discussion of Israel being genocidal colonizers come down to an incident that happened decades after their oppression of Palestine began?

Uh, are we not currently in a thread specifically talking about an October 7th game or...?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Uh, are we not currently in a thread specifically talking about an October 7th game or…?

From the linked article:

Fursan al-Aqsa was released in 2022

Calling it "an October 7th game" is a neat little piece of propaganda though. Good job falling for it.

(Edit) Yeah, actually after taking a look at your profile, you're not the kind of person I want taking up my mental energy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Fursan al-Aqsa was released in 2022

You're clearly not very well informed, because the source of the controversy here is an October 7th themed update that came out in late 2023.

Yeah, actually after taking a look at your profile, you’re not the kind of person I want taking up my mental energy.

What kind of person would that be?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Any support for Palestine is being called “terrorist” these days, so I’d rather make the judgment call for myself.

yeah, I'm sorry, but I disagree. That's a conspiracy like Q-Anon, meant to make you feel like you're something special, a "Truth-seeker" in a world of "global conspiracies". This game was removed for valid reasons because it is an omage to terrorism and glorifies and validates that terrorism.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Oh no an action shooter where the brown people are the heros? Stop the god damn presses.

[–] Semjaza 7 points 6 months ago

I recall from the interview when the UK blocked it the creator said "you do nothing in it you don't do it Black Ops. But only mine is terrorism, it's purely political." (paraphrased)

I'll confess that I've not played either of them, so I don't know how true that holds. But I do know that a lot of those console shooters are very political and the world seems fine with it when it's a US avatar shooting up Arabs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

You shouldn't be surprised seeing linux users on lemmy.