Oh, it's a threat from the left. I was more worried about one from the right.
What the left says can be completely ignored right now.
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What do you mean "the left"? It is from the US so at best it is from the "slight less extreme far right".
The relative left.
To be fair, it is full of racist and fascist stuff. You can report them but Valve doesn't do anything.
Is it worse then twitter or facebook? Also, can we stop infantilizing "young adults"? They're trying to discredit anyone's opinion who isn't a senior citizen.
Yes, it's worse. It is.
Did the Steam forums plot to over throw the US election? Are there private Police Union communities on Steam?
What comes to my mind is Battlefront 2, which is sold by Steam. I think I paid $5 for it since I boycotted it back when it first came out to due to loot crates... anyway, I regularly see the n-word used in this game every. single. night. It's used specifically to denigrate people of color, in violent and extremely racist ways.
I don't understand how players with maxed out accounts are able to keep them when they are saying this stuff. How is that not flagged for immediate review? EA is a trash company, and Steam may want to stop selling their games if they can't do the BARE MINIMUM to combat this sort of behavior.
So, I guess the quick version is that the fun police are upset because of the gamer word. You know, the one used on Xbox live, a lot...
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A good old crusade against videogames.
NGL, when I first saw Warner making a public fuss over this, I had a bit of a reaction. Like, no one comes after my boy steam, I like my games and I like my platform. And maybe it's because I don't engage in many public multiplayer games these days, but I just haven't really come across this extremist content frequently enough to feel Congress needs to get involved.
But...
I can see from the comments, my anecdotal experiences aren't the whole picture. And I do get that sometimes in an otherwise free market, regulation is necessary to prevent a situation where a company does the right thing and then suffers financially from the backlash/boycott that ensues. Better to let the government be the ones to take the heat by those that get upset by the moderation.
But I also kind of agree with the sentiment, Congress needs to clean up its own hate speech and ethics, before further legislating what everyone else should be doing.