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I refuse to believe anyone ever opens microsoft notepad on purpose.

Because it's so much better when Tencent and the UAE do that without any kind of transparency...

This kind of funding has been integral to the development of some of my very favorite games, and quite different ones (shout-out to the CNC in France for example). They're just optional subsidies, and the organisation doesn't intervene in the project itself. They'll probably care if you are making something illegal, but you know, justice will have something to say about it anyway.

Also as always, "political" is not a thing you can end a discussion on if you're honest about what you mean. There are not "political" and "apolitical" things, everything touching society at one point or another is "politics". Yes, even getting your game funded through a bank or private company has implications, probably more than what is presented in that proposition.

Most of what these guidelines say is about local resources, reach and accessibility. Yes, it's a political choice. Not caring about that is another.

Well that certainly explains why they want people to believe tracking users is an absolute necessity for advertisers.

La Haye International Court of Justice, of course.

People that are completely desensitized to that kind of stuff would probably not be very good at moderating it really.

Also this is a terrible job and I'd be very worried if a company was paying and enabling people who find that fun. It's horrible, but trauma is the normal outcome.

It's not really logic, and I don't think it's defending anything, it's just the definition of monetary worth.

For better or for worse, stuff is always as valuable as people consider it to be. Which may be related to how useful that stuff is, but often is not.