Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell
Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell
A senator for the US government has called on Valve to address complaints about the amount of racist, sexist and hateful posts by users on Steam.
In the letter, Democrat senator Mark Warner argues that Valve's content moderation doesn't meet industry standards, and says he wants Valve to "crack down on the rampant proliferation of hate-based content".
The exact hateful stuff he's talking about was highlighted in that report by the Anti-Defamation League last week. Its many findings include swastikas in profile pictures, antisemitic images such as the "happy merchant", and instances of Pepe the frog, a meme appropriated by the far right that - let's be honest - has never washed the stink off. Steam is "inundated with hate" as a result of these findings, say the anti-discrimination group.
While the simmering bubbles of fascism won't be news to the average Steam user (or average internet user, to be frank) that doesn't mean we ought to get complacent about them. It's proof, says senator Warner, that Valve is lacking good moderation.
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Whataboutism to avoid the conversation talking about Twitter
Why would a gaming news website talk about twitter? How is it whataboutism? Two things can be bad at the same time.
Not the gaming site article. The senator themselves
So he could ask Valve who, if the fanboys are to be believed, might actually do something about it, or go ask Elon to fix Twitter who will certainly not
Oh, got ya