Absurd Censoring in Battlefield V

Chat has always been a very important feature in many multiplayer games that focus on teamwork. Our bizarre times has spawned most weird "politically correct" phenomenon in EA's new Battlefield game. The chat censors words such as "white man", "lag", "nazi" and "jew". This is absurd considering it is a multiplayer war game that takes place during World war 2. I'm interested what will be EA's take on this and how will they explain or change it.
I would guess it is to lessen toxicity in chat, but my presonal opinion is that players should not be mollycoddled and controlled this way. BFV is a game for adults and we should be able to handle profany.

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  1. NiiloSeptember 11, 2018 at 4:51 AM

    I was reading about that topic too and it feels that it pops up more and more these days.

    Honestly it isn't bad thing to censor the words, it's bad thing to not let people filter out if they want them censored or not. Most games have profanity filters that work just fine (*****), I guess EA wants to try a new approach to make their games cater to even younger audiences.

    Then again, I don't think people under 12 should be playing shooter games at all.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 13, 2018 at 8:03 AM

    I was wondering when this was going to happen in more games, I've seen this trend in many online communities already. Though it isn't so much censorship as removal of participants who exhibit politically incorrect vocabulary. It seems most platforms use the authoritarian approach of removing undesired users.

    My personal opinion, let them play in their fascist sand boxes and don't give them any more of your time or money. If they don't feel the pain of the error in their ways, they will continue down their path and drag willing participants with them.

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