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Rockstar Censors GTA After Haitian Outcry

Posted by simoniker on from the ulala-and-morolians-next dept.

Thanks to VE3D for carrying a statement from Take Two/Rockstar announcing the removal of alleged anti-Haitian content from future copies of Grand Theft Auto:Vice City, after a furore which started last month following a CBS TV segment on the game. The controversy, which even had New York's Mayor Bloomberg weighing in on the game's rival gang-related urgings to "Kill all the Haitians", has ended with Rockstar's press release indicating: "We believe that recent media coverage has taken certain statements made in the game out of context... nevertheless, we are aware of the hurt and anger in the Haitian community... we will remove the objectionable statements from future copies of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City."

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  1. Boycott? by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Who wants to register boycottgta.com and get Rockstar to take a stand for their right to publish what they want to publish? This is complete garbage and I am amazed and sickened that they bowed to the pressure.

    Rockstar was getting pressure from mainstream groups who took the game out of context - are these the people who are driving sales of their game? No, it is the devoted gamer and they're bowing to pressure from the group that doesn't create their profits. It's time that Rockstar and Take Two remembered who butters their bread. All this will do is remove the heat from the censorship groups and replace it with heat from gamers offended by Rockstar's lack of a spine - and gamers getting angry hurts their bottom line.

    Big mistake, I think. I will not buy another Rockstar product unless they reverse their position.

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  2. Haitians are Grade-A HYPOCRITES!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I mean, where was their outrage at the movie Bad Boys II(just got it today and watched it, great movie)? Will Smith and Martin Lawrence's characters have big gunfights with a chapter of the KKK, with a HAITIAN GANG, and with the Cuban Army. Oh, wait, I know why, is it because the main character of Vice City is white? If that's the Haitian groups' answer, then they're the ones being racist.