#actual censorship

I think it’s a pretty good example of how progressive voices generally get blamed for the actions of conservative powers, both by conservative reactionaries and centrists - the changes after all, are to appease the Chinese government’s “decency” standards - like these are the most troublesome aspects of Genshin Impact. 

This isn’t the first time that the game has been altered at the behest of the CCP, but since last time it only involved issues of nationalism, capital G gamers were less concerned about it than they are about losing sight of a fictional navel.

The changes are obviously trivial, the designs are as ridiculous as before and the overall vibe is still the same but now it conforms to some arbitrary rules. No lessons are learned, and nothing grows from the experience except tantrums. The stories that can be told are more limited, and the incentive to come up with something truly ridiculous to game the rules raised.

This essentially the same strain of absurdity that leads to mainstreaming many of the worst aspects of bikini armor as once it becomes about arbitrary rules, creepy marketing guys look for ways to get around those rules while still being slimy and condescending.  

Hence why Escher Girls has a massive collection of baffling images spawned from the weird rules that as long as you do something to indicate a nipple exists, and is covered (even if its miles from a believable location) you can show as much tiddy as you want… acres and acres of tiddy.  So much tiddy, it breaks physics and language at the same time to assure you - she’s a woman.

On top of that, you’re almost guaranteed that even though there’s multiple articles talking about how it’s a decision made independently by bureaucrats within the PRC, shitlords are gonna blame western activists and random women for it like this kind of puritism hasn’t traditionally be levered against women.

If you catch anyone doing this though, feel free to point out to them that this is what actual censorship is and what it looks like: a government making up rules about  what arbitrary things are and are not allowed because they say so.

- wincenworks