Nexus Mods, a popular platform for PC game mods, has been targeted with death threats after removing mods that replaced Captain America's head with Donald Trump's likeness. The company defended its decision, citing its policy against political mods.
Launched last month, the PC modding community has gotten to work creating a litany of content for the shooter, from for Luna Snow to jam out in her ultimate. But one of the biggest modding communities online has found itself in a firestorm of death threats over the removal of a series of mods that transformed that have popped up since release.
The mods themselves were client-side alterations, rather than server-side, meaning that only players who’ve installed the mod (either the user themselves or others in a match with it installed) will see that you’ve given Spider-Man his. But despite that, a brouhaha kicked up this week after one of the biggest online mod sites, Nexus Mods, banned a series of mods that swapped out Captain America’s heads for stylized renditions of While the mods themselves were removed from Nexus last week on January 2, today the Nexus Mods X account released an extended statement clarifying the decision, after community moderators and site ownership found themselves facing a wave of harassment and death threats over claims of bias and censorship. “In 2020 we updated our Terms of Service to state that we would remove any American political mods from our site,” the statement. “By removing the Trump mod, we are simply executing our existing file submission policies. What has been overlooked in much of the conversation is that we also removed other mods featuring U.S. Presidents uploaded to the site for While we have the right to choose what we host on our platform, we are not the authority on what you do or do not decide to mod into your games, and these mods can be found elsewhere on other sites,” the statement concluded, before linking to Nexus Mods’criticizing the decision, Nexus Mods owner TheDarkOne noted that several members of the Nexus Mods moderator team had faced abuse for the removal of the Trump mod, while ignoring the similar decision to also take down the Biden version of it
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