I only skimmed the last few posts, but did anyone actually advocate censorship? It seems that discussions on females in games (or any social analysis of games) seems to bring with it a discussion of censorship.
The one thing you will find on here
Is that someone will advocate that a company shouldn't do something... and that it is wrong for them to do so... and that we should make them stop
But will not go as far as censorship or direct government intervention.
Which makes this whole thing WEIRD given that frankly games are rarely flawed on an individual level.
This is the thing that doesn't make sense to me. If you'd rather a company doesn't do something to the point of arguing about it to people, why don't you go the full mile and want it to be put into law? If you don't feel strongly enough to do that, why are you wasting your time on it?
Except there's plenty of things that you want to discourage because they cause problems, where making them illegal can cause just as many problems. It's a big tangent but drugs is a prime example of this sort of thing. Bigotry is also problematic, you want to discourage it without stepping down too heavily on free speech. In my opinion laws are the worst way to handle things unless it's absolutely necessary. They come with a heap of problems: policing, lawyers, courts, drawn out legal proceedings, jails etc. If the issue can be handled without a law I'd consider that preferable.
Edit: If you start passing too many laws about what's allowed in games then game developers need to employ a lawyer. Fine for the bigger business's which will already have 1. Crap for indie developers.