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.
Is this even a real problem on steam or something some random dude wrote to his senator about?
My biggest issue was valve being slow to vac ban people bragging about cheating, which was almost exlcusive to TF2.
Seen way worse on reddit than steam for "hate" content.
It's a real problem. I've seen forum posts calling for the extermination of minorities.
It's good to see a politician who actually stays informed about these kinds of issues.
They are going after the billionaire who won't play along with Trump.
And they are being on purpose hypocritical and smarmy. Even that senator's wikipedia page labels him as a businessman before being a senator. Priorities priorities
What? 😆 This has all the silly markings of the typical ADL talking points.
This is an issue 47 US senators care deeply about. 53 of them think both sides need to do better, so instead of action we’ll just wait and see.
Steam being privately owned and somehow independent is probably a big factor in that I guess.
😂 what??
Sooooo. . . This clearly falls under freedom of speech and a senator not knowing that is kinda horrifying. The government can't come after you for speech
A US senator can absolutely, unambiguously write to a private corporation asking them to more strictly moderate their platform. You're just parroting "muh freeze peach" having zero idea where that starts and ends.
I highly recommend informing yourself where this boundary is; even if you particularly disagree with this senator, citing the First Amendment is the weakest possible argument here except among people who also don't understand where the line is.
Now do the congress letter sent to Amazon asking to fire Dan Clancy from twitch Twitter link.
I guess it's only cancel culture when the left do it?
"As Black Friday and the holiday buying season approaches, the American public should know that not only is Steam an unsafe place for teens and young adults to purchase and play online games, but also that, absent a change in Valve’s approach to user moderation and the type of behavior that it welcomes on its platform, Steam is playing a clear role in allowing harmful ideologies to spread and take root among the next generation," says Warner
What? What the fuck, democrats?
First off - cool letter bro, I've always wanted to write one but unfortunately we are in the current century. I don't know what kind of a pretentious cuntwaffle you have to be to write a letter at this point in time, but apparently it helps if you're a senator.
Second - really? Valve should moderate user scrrenshots to make sure there are no swastikas? What if I have a swastika tattooed on my face and the pic is a closeup shot? What if my swastika is related to Hinduism, not fascism? Listen, cumstain - if you're not gonna do your job as a government and you'll allow extremist speech by hiding behind your 'freedom of speech' bullshit, don't be surprised when a corporation can't do it either. What, the KKK is too hard to stamp out for the US government, so let's put Valve on the job? A Neonazi fuck just won another presidential campaign, you're telling me your country is against swastikas? Fuck outta here.
And third - I'd really like to know what makes steam "unsafe for teens and young adults". Is valve impregnating kids now? Do they carry measles in their steam decks? Is gaben running with scissors in school hallways? Or is it just that you're an out of touch cunt who last understood technology when horse power involved actual horses?
You're apparently unfamiliar with the concept of the open letter or writing to a specific person instead of just spewing garbage out a general agency. It's not uncommon.
The Hinduism excuse really doesn't fly most of the time, especially when we're talking about hate speech. It's pedantic and weaselly and does not pass the smell test.
Unsafe could mean, for an examples I have seen on steam forums, that minorities get harassed or told they should be exterminated. Just like Nazis should be scared to be in public IRL, they shouldn't have safe spaces online either.
I know by your language you already have your mind made up and probably have a real strong opinion on ethics in gaming journalism, but extremism is a real problem.
I don't really want to engage with people like you, so I won't be responding further, but I didn't really want to leave your bs unchallenged.
This reads like it was written by somebody with a swastika icon on Steam.
Jesus christ, chill the hell out. 💀
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Who still writes letters anymore? Uh... A lot of people? Especially sitting senators to massive, multi-billion-dollar corporations? Would you have preferred they go on some shitty social media platform to write "ayo get your shit together fr fr"? Fellas, is it
gaypretentious to use your position in government to bring attention to an issue? Have you never written a letter? -
One of the reasons a neo-Nazi fuck just won the election is because these online spaces allow fascist rhetoric to run rampant. (Edit: probably also the general attitude that shuns literacy and intellectualism, like "writing a letter? how pretentious lmaooo") You're bringing up a nonsensical, extreme edge case to justify why action shouldn't be taken in 99.999% of cases. I also as a Hindu (a religion I'm sure you actually understand or care about) get a facial swastika tattoo and then post that as my pfp to Steam. Definitely how that really works in the actual real world.
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Writing coherently about an actual issue facing a platform like Steam actually shows that he's more in-touch than most politicians. You sound deeply insecure.
This entire comment oozes intellectual dishonesty.
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This mans steam name is his steam ID
Now do congress letter to twitch about Hasan Twitter Link