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Surprising, even by Google's standards. DDLC is a violent game but not much more. What app store rule exactly is it breaking?

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Self-harm (especially when depicting minors) has special standards. The recent court losses on child safety for Meta and YouTube probably led to this.

Completely absurd. If it's not safe for children just slap an age rating on it.

I don't like this trend of every technology assuming I'm a child that needs to be protected from the world while simultaneously assuming I'm an adult with infinite disposable income that must be shown ads to all the time. This is insincere. Children need to be "protected" only when it's convenient and allows the platform to exercise unchecked control. Nobody is protecting children from ads because that would be inconvenient.

To be clear, I'm not advocating for the behavior here, just explaining that, for most tech companies, the risk of liability is a huge motivator. Liability for poor use of ad targeting would induce similar behavior (and I think that'd be a win for everyone involved)

i feel like this is going to be really dangerous tbh, especially if it starts blocking informational content

"Violent"? Do you consider news reporting to be violent too? This isn't remotely in the league of all the shooter games you can find on the store.

When journalism shows death or gore, they do often call it violent imagery. So... yes? Violent imagery is imagery of violence. The news report is not itself violence, but it contains violence.

Gore in shooters is culturally treated as much less "violent" than e.g. graphic scenes of suicide. You could make an argument that it shouldn't be, but it is.

Most shooters are an abstraction, i.e. you're not really shooting anyone.

You are, but you're not.

Most of them are in the same league of violence that an aggressive debate would be in.

Which is really sad. Video games with dehumanized violence: a-ok. Video games that show you the actual consequences of violence, well that is a bridge too far.

Perhaps soiety would be better if it was reversed.

There are countless games on the store that let you kill endless hordes of humans in detail...

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