Western censorship pressure on Japanese game developers is “insane” says Elon Musk

Elon Musk has raised his voice about the recent pressure of Western global compliance on Japanese game developers. His tweet says, “This is insane,” while sharing his concerns about the frustrated Japanese developers who have been forced to compromise their creative freedom. 

This is insane https://t.co/cMQ1ZNLoOF

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 30, 2024

In an interview on Token Game Show 2024, Japanese developers express their frustration over UN-driver agendas. According to them being forced to comply with these pressures has threatened their creative freedom. They refer to these agendas as narrow-mindedness, which lets down their creativity.

Their approach to compliance is very narrow minded…doing business with such a ridiculous country is really frustrating. Because of that, Japan gets negatively influenced. – Japanese game developer

🚨 MUST WATCH: Japanese Game Developers are frustrated at the forced ridiculous UN driven Globalist agenda compliance they have to include in their game.

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“Under the name of compliance…it’s like an absolute God…an evil disguised as good. There’s no such thing as content… pic.twitter.com/NLDo96BBqC

— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) September 30, 2024

Several changes in character customization in Japanese games, such as Dragon Quest and Baldur Gate 3, have ignited these concerns. In Dragon Quest the characters options have been obscurely labeled as “Type 1” and “Type 2” which was initially a choice between “male” or “female” characters. Similary, there is no mention of gender in Baldur Gate 2, only the body type 1 or 2.

According to the developers, these changes have taken away the identity of a large population to satisfy the concerns of the minority.