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There are too many dope-heads-with-power to chase in the world, unfortunately.
If, by any chance, you DO have a will and a strength to "raise awareness", there are ongoing wars in the world. It's... you know... at least SLIGHTLY more important than yet another ruckus related to videogames.
If i can i will try
There's plenty, the point is chasing the correct/significant ones... or more precisely chasing the contextual ones, according to the scope of the battle we are fighting. It's better for each one to clarify the situation and the goals, rather than just fight everyone and everything at the same time. Usually, catching the general of the enemy's army makes the battle end faster and more efficiently.
You mean like actual wars? (Like Israel and Palestine) Without any doubt they are more tremendous and dangerous, but they are not completely unrelated with this, they share something: killing liberties. Both that war and this censorship for example are backed up from America, the fact they suddenly escalated recently is surely related to Trump (extremist) being elected again and his agenda. To make a long story short, when an enemy country, a terrorist army or an extremist government (not like they are that much different among themselves) want to invade another country, military forces are kinda a given, but also propaganda is involved in the process and, especially in the age of the Web, you want to cut any communication with/from the outside, namely you're gonna choke the flow of information, which is literal censorship like banning socials, erasing the news, arrest journalists/reporters and anything else you can imagine.
There's even people who doesn't know that Palestine is no more no less a victim of the overwhelming rampage of Israel and the information are distorted in a shameful way. This is what i'm talking about.
Which one is more important between bracing a gun and fighting on the web? Both. They aren't unrelated episodes, they are both part of a long term plan for restricting the liberties of people and you need both to make it work properly. So both battles need to be fought.
With censorship the first thing which comes into mind is NSFW, but that's just a part of the whole thing, it's about the control of citizens, in order to enforce a government, especially when such government wouldn't be acceptable otherwise. It didn't start with videogames and it won't stop with videogames. As we speak, this site (https://stopcensorship.net/) keeps evolving and clarifies which risks come from this latest wave of censorship: once they can control what you can do on the web, the web becomes meaningless, the same can be said for the real world.
We consider rights and freedom as a given, but that's not the case, in fact, our ancestors braced guns and paid with blood for a future in which people could live peacefully and, hopefully, without bracing a gun anymore. Nowadays, for now, we possess one more powerful tool to protect our freedom and rights: the Web, let's use it.
Said that, about real wars activism, it's more contextual to use social platforms (or other ways which i probably don't know) in which even non-gamers can be reached... on itch it doesn't seem to fit properly, despite spreading info is never enough. On the other hand on itch, since censorship of videogames is happening now, it's definitely the case to talk about those arguments
Well, i wrote it by my hands and spend some actual time to share my perspective with you.
Seems that you're not even trying to listening me, too bad. You should know what i'm trying to say: it's obvious that actual war is the most concrete and worst form of violence, but if you really think that worldwide censorship (a.k.a several forms of liberty) and its long term implications have no impact on our future... then your perspective is quite naive, assuming you are speaking in good faith
