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Google has removed popular psychological horror game Doki Doki Literature Club! from the Play Store. According to Dan Salvato, who led its development team, and publisher Serenity Forge, Google told them the visual novel was removed because it violated its Terms of Service in its depiction of sensitive themes. The game is “widely celebrated for portraying mental health in a way that meaningfully connects deeply with players around the world,” they said in their announcement. Its free version, which came out first, has been downloaded at least 30 million times, while the paid “Plus” version has had at least one million downloads. The visual novel has repeatedly made Engadget’s lists of favorite games over the years.
X == Google. Definitely how it works.
No. X is an app that’s a sizable on google Play. If they are banning dokindoki, why not ban X, which has far worse shit?
That’s what they meant. is the one doing the banning, so it makes sense to criticise it even if they are not the owners of X. Reading comprehension.
The very same app that almost got removed from Google Play (and Apple’s App Store) for ToS violations such as planning to disable account blocking functionality?
Yes, that is indeed how it works.
Might as well as ban the Internet if you’re going to try to transitive your way through it. Good Lord 🤣👌👍
Please explain why you think CSAM, gore, and revenge porn aggregator X is the entire internet and try to do it without being arrested
As much as Lemmy 🤷♂️
Knew you couldn’t. I hope you know some real people who haven’t cut you out of their lives yet
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Zero? Yeah I guess that makes sense.
You forgot an “/s” because yes that is a fair criticism toward google.
Banning this game under that logic would be just as dumb as banning most of the internet and if their rules where enforced consistently then that is what they should do.
But the contextual key here is that they should keep the game on their store and maintain consistently enforced guidelines of what is actually not allowed.
Why are you talking about the internet as a whole when the context is apps on the play store, a (extremely poorly but yet) curated subset?
No one is talking about banning X as a whole. Well, you, since you misunderstood apparently.