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Premadekrill(She/Her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone to LGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 day ago

Steam Reportedly Blocks LGBTQ+ Game Tag In China, Following Similar Censorship In Russia

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Premadekrill(She/Her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone to LGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 day ago
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Steam Seemingly Blocks LGBTQ+ Tag In China After Similar Censorship In Russia
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Shortly after reprimanding a dev for selling queer games in Russia, Steam has reportedly restricted the LGBTQ+ tag in China.
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    20 hours ago

    I’ve got no problem here. It might’ve only been temporarily blocked. LGBTQ+ stuff isn’t illegal in China, just porn. Unfortunately for steam most games with the LGBTQ+ tag also have the NSFW or Hentai tags, which are blocked.

    But searching with the LGBTQ+ tag seems to work at this point.

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      19 hours ago

      Yet the LGBTQ+ content in Guild Wars 2 was still stripped out in China :/

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        18 hours ago

        I’m not able to find any information on that, can you post a source? The closest I’ve found is GW2 just censoring LGBTQ+ content globally.

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          13 hours ago

          Its been a while so I’m rusty but I found this reddit link from the time

          https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/tawl48/the_scene_of_jory_and_kas_at_the_end_of_eods/

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            12 hours ago

            Weird that thread’s no longer there on Tieba, but since I don’t play the game and can’t find any other reference I’ll assume it’s real. Foreign companies do tend to get the weirdest advice to pass NPPA and they were a lot more strict in order to encourage domestic competition even just a few years ago, like the ‘skulls’ censorship in blizzard games.

            I can say safely though there are plenty of Chinese made NPPA approved games with LGBT representation, just like there are plenty of skulls.

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              I’ll have to take your word for it :3

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