[kdamken]

This is rather silly. What's next? Are we going to change the uniforms of Nazis in World War 2 games? Start putting "CENSORED" watermarks over the confederate flag in civil war themed movies?

The flag shouldn't be flying on state buildings, but leave historically themed art and media out of this.

[fixermark]

You might not be familiar with the German videogame marketplace.

http://www.destructoid.com/see-how-wolfenstein-the-new-order...

[Mithaldu]

That's all self-censoring. The law says use of such symbols is fine if it serves art², however the agency tasked with judging the youth impact of games does not think games are art. However, that's just their opinion and does not reflect actual legality, since this was never challenged in court.

So, until they change their opinion, or a game company decides it's worth it and takes them to court, game companies just end up censoring themselves in advance so they don't have to deal with it in the first place.

² As mentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9777854 , it was for example fine in the movie Iron Sky.

[djcapelis]

That doesn't make it any less silly.

I find the flying of the confederate flag in real life reprehensible, but censoring a civil war game using it as a symbol of the confederate armed forces? I'm not sure that makes sense.

[zxcvcxz]

Is there any evidence that censorship in Germany has really prevented racism?

[smacktoward]

They don't have half their country driving around with swastikas painted on their pickup trucks, so they would certainly seem to be doing better than we are...

[zxcvcxz]

Your comment implies that half the people in the US fly that flag and that everyone who flies the flag is a racist and that the fact that so many people fly it hasn't made it lose much of its meaning.

Your comment makes a lot of assumptions and appears to me to be painting half the country (probably the south) as racists. This is a bigoted narrow minded attitude.

Even Kanye West has a line of clothing with the confederate flag, do you think he's part of the KKK?

[screwedup]

Neither does the US...

[foodstances]

Imagine if neo-nazis started adopting that made-up Wolfenstein logo as their own...

[jtgi8jgfdg]

Google Shopping just banned Confederate flags. However you can shop for Nazi flags.

[MichaelGG]

I only just heard about this "controversy" (I'm not even American) and decided to buy a confederate flag shirt for fun. I'm unable to find them on Amazon now - all searches come back with US flags.

When I search online and find links to Amazon with such items, clicking through shows an error message/item removed.

Am I just bad at searching or is this actually a thing? Hilarious.

Edit: Holy shit, it's actually a thing; eBay too. When did Americans become so pro-censorship? I wish Amazon wasn't so critical to buying everything otherwise I'd cancel prime and drop them for being so moronic.

[zxcvcxz]

Just get a Nazi Swastika shirt, those are fine.

[MichaelGG]

I looked but I can only find peace swastikas. The only Nazi swastika I found is this one [1] which calls itself an "Anti Nazi" patch.

1: http://www.amazon.com/German-Miltary-T-shirt-Embroidered-Cos...