Molleindustria
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Molleindustria is an Italian guerrilla semiotics and culture jamming
Culture jamming
Culture jamming, coined in 1984, denotes a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements to disrupt or subvert mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. Guerrilla semiotics and night discourse are sometimes used synonymously with the term culture jamming.Culture...

 website that produces flash videogames based on provocative left-wing socio-political points of view, like on topics like labour market flexibility
Labour market flexibility
Labour market flexibility refers to the speed with which labour markets adapt to fluctuations and changes in society, the economy or production.-Definition:In the past, the most common definition of labour market flexibility was the neo-liberal definition...

 and Queer theory
Queer theory
Queer theory is a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of LGBT studies and feminist studies. Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorisation of 'queerness' itself...

, in explicitly opposition with the mainstream video game industry. They feature games like Queer Power, Faith Fighter
Faith Fighter
Faith Fighter is a beat-em-up video game developed by Molleindustriain which players fight as religious figures such as Jesus and Muhammad and must fight Xenu after beating all playable characters....

and the McDonald's Videogame.

In June 2007 the game Operazione: Pretofilia (Operation: Pedopriest), inspired by the controversial BBC documentary Sex Crimes and the Vatican, was removed from the site after a point of order in the Italian Parliament called "Countermeasures to the religions' offences".

In April 2009, Molleindustria initially bowed to complaints from the Organisation of the Islamic Conference
Organisation of the Islamic Conference
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Upon the groups's renaming, some sources provided the English-language translation "Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation", but and have since indicated the preferred English translation omits the "the". is an international organisation consisting of 57...

 by removing Faith Fighter from their site, but later put up a new version that gives the player the choice between a full and a censored version. Molleindustria has later started producing a sequel that promotes religious pluralism
Religious pluralism
Religious pluralism is a loosely defined expression concerning acceptance of various religions, and is used in a number of related ways:* As the name of the worldview according to which one's religion is not the sole and exclusive source of truth, and thus that at least some truths and true values...

 and tolerance. Both games have since been put back on the website.

List of Molleindustria games

Tamatipico-a game based on the life of a worker.

Tuboflex-a game based on the need of human resources.

Orgasm Simulator-a game based on how men sometimes use women for orgasms.

Enduring Indymedia-a game based on the FBI seizing Indymedia web servers.

Queer Power-a game based on how homosexuals change gender roles.

Mcdonald's Videogame-a game based on how the fast food industry works.

Operation: Pedopriest-a game based on the sexual abuse cases of the Catholic Church.

Faith Fighter-a game based on on religious intolerence.

The Free Culture Game-a game based on the struggle between free culture and copyright laws.

Oiligarchy-a game based on how the oil industry works.

Every day the same dream-a game about short existence, alienation, and refusal of labor

Memory Reloaded-a game based on recent issues in the world.

Leaky World-a game based on the issues of Wikileaks.

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