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Political Propaganda in Splash Messages

The minecraft launcher updates the splash file by itself with these messages:

https://resources.download.minecraft.net/79/79100a074bf2444ce2df0a464f77091d870f8a26

This file adds the splash messages:

Black lives matter!
Be anti-racist!
Learn about allyship!
Speak OUT against injustice and UP for equality!
Amplify and listen to BIPOC voices!
Educate your friends on anti-racism!
Support the BIPOC community and creators!
Stand up for equality in your community!

 

Political propaganda is unacceptable in a game that kids play. Especially not local political issues. Not everybody lives in the USA, how about a "Free Palestine" and "Free Hong Kong" message while we are at it?
It doesn't matter how justified you think your cause is or how you think its an universally good message, i do not want to explain to my niece why minecraft tells her to support the people who are on the news burning streets down and why people use anti-[bad thing] to justify violence.

You can support on twitter whatever you want. You can donate to whoever you want. But please keep your politics out of a game that children play.

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Hello @unknown, I can get your point, but it would take too long and this is not the right platform to discuss this, without getting one's words misunderstood.

Since years, I add a custom splash via my resource packs I offer, with mostly uplifting words and some more.

I don't know you, but from the way you worded it, you seem to show general concern about a potential propagandistic misusage of a game that is being played by many children, so I currently assume that switching to a different splash file for you individually is not what you want, but make people aware of what you think is wrong and right.

However, for your niece, this would be a workaround?

If this topic is a matter of your heart, this bugtracker is not the right platform for you; but there are many other platforms out there where you can try to get your point across.

In case you need help with a custom splash file, directmessage me with my nickname LapisDemon, either on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or via Youtube.

This is a bug tracker. +This is not the place for social or political debate. +
Please do not continue this discussion here.

As a note, Moderators don't work at Mojang and are just volunteers

For those who may stumble upon this bugpost, I'd like to state that neither the developer's nor the mod's post refer to my own post, which also falsely shows an "edited" note, as my post was privatelisted first, then reinstated. The posts seem out of context, as other posts before and after mine were privated, which can't be seen by the public eye anymore, but my own as well as the other remaining posts refer to those now privated posts.

I wrote on the Mojira Subreddit.

i really hate to start drama but this is genuinely such a stupid idea just for the fact that its implying lgbt people + POC as a topic are controversial. i thought the era of suppressing minorities was over, but this just proves that people still have the audacity to try to silence voices that couldn’t speak for the longest time.

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