Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack [Feb 22, 2023, 7:47 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The Government of Ukraine plans to petition Valve, Microsoft, and Sony to remove
Atomic Heart from digital stores in Ukraine, and will ask platform
holders to consider “limiting distribution” of the game in other countries. At
heart of the matter are the new first-person shooter's Russian roots. There are
allegations that sales of the game directly benefit the Russian government and
that the game is possibly being used to harvest user data. Ukrainian tech
website
Dev.au first reported on this, and
PCGamesN has a statement in English directly from the Ukraine
government:
“Regarding the situation with the release of the game Atomic Heart, which has Russian roots and romanticises communist ideology and the Soviet Union, The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine will send an official letter to Sony, Microsoft, and Valve requesting a ban on selling digital versions of this game in Ukraine,” says Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, Alex Bornyakov.
“We also urge limiting the distribution of this game in other countries due to its toxicity, potential data collection of users, and the potential use of money raised from game purchases to conduct a war against Ukraine.”
“According to media reports, the game’s development was funded by Russian enterprises,” the statement continues. “Therefore, we call for all users worldwide to avoid this game. We also want to emphasise that the game developers have not publicly condemned the Putin regime and the bloody war that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine.”
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We could help you understand why maybe the links are bad.
Like A Very Heavy Agenda, which is an immensely biased video (most videos are), that gets a lot of things wrong. Here's a tip - stop watching videos for any coverage that's deep. They move very quickly, cannot show sources, and appeal to emotion and anger. They'll mislead you on things such as, in Robbie's case, claiming that the Maiden Revolution was US backed. The documentary isn't a case of "the truth they're hiding," nor is it a case of "the truth is somewhere in the middle." It's a case of someone wanting to anger you and doing a lot of cherry picking and appeals to emotion to do so, without showing even a tiny bit of a complete story.
"But CNN and MSNBC..." yeah, but no one here watches them, let alone told anyone else to watch it to learn "the truth."
If an uncited YouTube documentary is where your standards are and how you form your opinions, yes, you're not going to live up to other people's higher standards. What's next, telling us Loose Change is great, or NFTs are the future?
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