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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cowpie" data-source="post: 7766392" data-attributes="member: 98840">Sorry for sounding inflammatory.  I totally understand being critical of the material, but I just don't think it's a good idea to censor it. While thoughtless and insensitive, the White Wolf books do caricature the dictator as a weak vampire thrall, and the government's anti-LGBT attacks as the actions of mentally enslaved thugs.  Dictatorships can't afford to allow any criticism, no matter how small.  If they let one critic go unpunished, it opens the door to critics who might make a difference, like journalists, and amnesty international.  This could ultimately topple the government.  I think this why they immediately responded by making a big show of censoring the books and threatening to sue White Wolf.  I can't imagine most people even know what the vampire RPG is, or that the Chechen government doesn't have better things to do than hold a 50 minute press conference to attack an obscure RPG. This looks like sham outrage on the part of the regime, and an attempt on their part to make an public example out of White Wolf, a soft target, to scare anyone else into silence.It's understandable being against White Wolf's material, but I think it's worth noting that if the gaming community also calls for censorship, they could be  unintentionally *helping* this regime censor not just white wolf but critics who could help protect LGBT people in Chechnya.</blockquote>