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Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell

Sundial@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

What industry standards is he talking about here? Steam code of conduct only says you must engage in lawful behaviour. There’s no American law banning far-right symbols. There’s no doubt Steam has a content moderation issue and I would love to see those things go as well. But unless there’s some kind of law then Valve is just going to ignore this problem like they’ve done in the past.

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navi@lemmy.tespia.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Well, name another game platform that openly allows swastikas. I think they are saying the rest of the industry largely doesn’t allow this so Valve shouldn’t either.

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- Sundial@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  No other gaming platform has the userbase Steam does. I see this more of a numbers thing than anything else. If 2% of the gaming population is far right then it’s going to be much more noticeable when one company has a userbase of ~100million. I’d be very surprised if the other companies like Ubisoft and EA have this kind of content moderation.
  
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  - barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I have a steam account. I write like half a review and maybe a handful of comments a year, talking mechanics. The amount of people who don’t even lurk because they are there to play games has to be absolutely overwhelming.
    
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- PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Roblox. It’s a game but also a platform in a sense. It’s full of kids running around yelling racial slurs, kicking users with dark coloured avatars, and lots of far right content. It is like a grade school run by 4chan.
  
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  - alyaza@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    i mean if Roblox is any indication, Valve will probably bend the knee sooner or later. government scrutiny is obliging them to make changes and actually do even basic moderation over there:
    
    The fast-growing children’s gaming platform Roblox is to hand parents greater oversight of their children’s activity and restrict the youngest users from the more violent, crude and scary content after warnings about child grooming, exploitation and sharing of indecent images.
    
    The moves comes after a short-seller last month alleged it had found child sexual abuse content, sex games, violent content and abusive speech on the site. In the UK, Peter Kyle, the secretary of state for science and technology, told parliament: “I expect that company to do better in protecting service users, particularly children.”
    
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- Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Do American streets count as a platform?
  
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