What I think is interesting is that of the numerous examples Mr. Rath gave in his article the only one Mr. McGee seemed to be able to come up with a rebuttal to is the example of Homefront. No mention of any of the other examples.
The fact of the matter is that Chinese censorship is ruthlessly oppressive and if most videogames manage to fly under the radar it's because they don't deal with what infuriates the Chinese government more than anything else: criticizing the Chinese government. One need only look at the way they cracked down on China's 5th generation filmmakers for the films they made in the late '80's and early '90's (films like To Live and The Blue Kite) or the way they have bullied and abused artists and activists like Ai Weiwei and Liu Xiabo for criticizing the government to see how little tolerance they have for it, and the idea that you could compare USDOT's stance on imported electric cars in the US (and let's just ignore all the domestic ones that are starting to hit the market) to this oppression is utterly absurd.
There is a huge difference between electric cars and freedom of expression and there is a huge difference in having to put skin on skeletons and being imprisoned for publicly criticizing the government, something McGee doesn't have to worry about with the kinds of games he makes (really, Mr. McGee, go make a game where you get to play as Tank Man and see how warm and welcoming the Chinese government is to you then), and one does not need to live in China to see how oppressive the government is, just like one does not need to live in the US to see how wrong the US was in carrying out the war in Iraq (or whatever other example you want to use).
I have, admittedly, never been to China, but I would love to go. I have no doubt that I would find it an amazing country with a rich, deep culture and wonderful people. However, I despise much of what their government has done to their own citizens and even if I went and lived there for awhile (something else I would be perfectly willing to do), it would not change the fact that what they have done to their own artists and activists who, in the government's eyes, step out of line, is morally reprehensible, and while I don't buy into the BS in some of these comments about how Mr. McGee has a Chinese gun to his head, I genuinely wonder if he can come on here and speak out against what, say, the Chinese government has done to Liu Xiabo or Ai Weiwei, because I assume, as a good and decent human being, that he does find the government's treatment of these two and so many others morally reprehensible.
It seems to me the reason he has found making games in China such a pleasurable experience is because he has been very careful to keep his nose clean and not make any waves and that is in fact the problem. People in China do not have the same freedom of expression that comparable artists in the US, Europe and much of the rest of the world do, and there is simply no excuse or justification for that.
