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US rep asks Valve to remove ‘Oct. 7’ game from Steam (www.polygon.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by inclementimmigrant to c/politics
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

the game is blocked across the European Union due to EU violations flagged by the French government’s cybercrime unit. In an email from Valve that Nijm showed to Polygon, the violation is of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2021/784, which addresses the “dissemination of terrorist content online.”
In his letter to Valve, which was sent to Polygon via a news release, Torres said that Fursan al-Aqsa “glorifies barbaric violence and terror against Jews.” He wrote that Valve, by hosting the game, is complicit in “normalizing the most monstrous forms of antisemitic violence and terror—like beheadings, suicide bombings, and the war crimes of October 7th.”

There are actually no civilians in the game. The player exclusively fights against armed on duty IDF soldiers, who shoot back at you.
The only difference to any other shooter game out there is which side you play as.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

This made me think that it would be interesting if someone made a kind of mini game where you are the IDF and your enemies are only civilians. To paint the horrors, it has you just slaughter without any challenges at all...

But then I remembered how many people think judge dread, punisher, etc are unironically good, and they would probably like the game instead of getting nauseous.

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

If this is what they want then all games such as Call of duty, Counterstrike, Doom, etc and every game that uses any historical setting, people, or event, or glorifies or depicts any war, violence, or brutally should also be banned.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Where were they when someone made a Kyle Rittenhouse game?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Cheering and masturbating.

[–] inclementimmigrant 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Honestly it's a shitty asset flip but thanks to politicians clutching of pearls for shitty Israel government, get to bring up this creator's absolutely just point of the western games double standards via the Streisand effect.