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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bill Zebub" data-source="post: 8945296" data-attributes="member: 7031982">Each or our opinions is just that, but to share where I stand:I am 100% in favor of new content being carefully checked for problematic content.  For example, I am all for rewriting orcs to not use the imagery and language that has, for centuries, been used to rationalize subjugation of certain people.  I am all for getting rid of racial ASIs (although that's not entirely altruistic...I also think they are weak game design).And I would extend that to re-releases of old content, when it is updated.But old content is...old content.  With the caveat that I'm not a member of the real life demographic groups supposedly hurt by this, I see banning old content as going too far.  And not because it's necessarily "censorship".  I just find the intellectual justification weak.  The possible benefit...which seems to me to be rather small...is outweighed by the cost of inflaming culture wars, and giving the right ammunition for saying, "See? They're nuts!" That's on top of the simple economics of re-writing a bunch of stuff that almost nobody buys.</blockquote>