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by proc0 2174 days ago
Good question!

The flag itself is not a problem. It won't change my mind for sure. I've seen it in history books, the only difference would be if somehow I feel threatened by the other player holding Nazi beliefs - which I'm not because we defeated them. We can defeat them again, no problem.

I would be ok with taking measure if somehow a bunch of a Nazi flags started FLOODING the game. This would be its own problem however, and stopping this kind of trolling is different than censorship. One or two flags here and there, just tell you some people are stupid.

Question for you: Would you rather play a game that has secret Nazis and you don't know because their iconography is censored, or would you rather play a game that doesn't censor people so you know what people believe?

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I'd rather there be no nazis, and if there are nazis, I'd rather they feel uncomfortable expressing that; and if they do feel comfortable expressing that, I want to be able to report them and have them banned.

It's absurd that one must have to deal with hateful political views in a game about racing cars.

"I'd rather they feel uncomfortable expressing that"

How is this useful though? Are you afraid to adopt those views? Are you saying ONLY others are in this danger of adopting those views (if so, why are you so special)?

At best you are making them stealthy and they are playing with you but you don't know, and at worse their beliefs are reinforced because they already hate people.