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China pursuing justice for all by arresting HOI4 modders for a chuddy "wot if the world went more bonkers after covid?" Mod
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Look what's happening in Europe. It's easy to critique a state for being paranoid and how they use excess force on censoring speech. I personally think China is focusing way too much on these video gamers and mangakas, when they should focus more on making Ayn Rand illegal to read.
If I dare say they might be acting somewhat reactionary, by buying into Western propaganda that's blaming increasing violence/crime on GTA, like how I have heard them blame lack of births to homosexuality. But I also wonder how these decisions are reached, China is a difficult country to manage with a lot of people and if they really do have a decent amount of influence towards policy making, could it be that the population is seeing what's happening in the West and is demanding their governments to do something?
What do you do if you're the government in that situation do you just say screw democracy? What if people want you to get in trouble for making these games and they really are concerned about the mangas? This doesn't justify the actions of China, but I do certainly not envy their position because idk what I'd do honestly. It seems like a genuine trolley problem kind of situation.
That is a very rude assumption to make. I am quite intimate with the cops knocking on my door. They worry me less than the time the national newspapers were knocking and camping outside.