What a time to be alive!
This kind of thing happens everywhere, everyday in TV stations, editorial offices, at publishing companies, radio stations - all kind of media really.
Depending on the political or moral views of the parent organisation or investors, this content censoring/massaging is everyday business and shouldn't shock or surprise you in the slightest.
All of this just smacks of the old, worn-out argument that "it's different because it uses computers!"
Editor is a literal career field, and has been for years and years.
Surely the important distinction is not the text itself but which character a reader empathises with — the monster or the victim.
(Personally I don’t understand why violent horror as a genre exists, and literally cannot empathise with people who enjoy it. Nonetheless I recognise that enjoyment of horror does not make one a monster).
There's a bunch of other stuff about The Nightmare of Consciousness and so on in his book The Conspiracy Against the Human Race.
What's wrong with it as entertainment?
"""You’re entertained by torture and murder of characters who had done nothing deserving of such suffering."""
That part of me wants to continue with a long rant, but by this point my rational self can sit my emotional self down with a nice cup of tea and a biscuit.
Golf stimulates some brains and understimulates others.
Sympathy, humility against my own feelings, sure. Not empathy.
Not sure how much of a line that is, didn't "It' have an underage sex scene in it? Wouldn't it get banned here, too?
> AI Dungeon will continue to support other NSFW content, including consensual adult content, violence, and profanity.
Anything sexual? Oh no no no! The children!
Americans are fucking weird...