Steam ist „ein unsicherer Ort für Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene“: US-Senator warnt Gabe Newell vor „intensiverer Kontrolle“ durch die Regierung, wenn Valve nicht gegen extremistische Inhalte vorgeht
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/steam-is-an-unsafe-place-for-teens-and-young-adults-us-senator-warns-gabe-newell-of-more-intense-scrutiny-from-the-government-if-valve-doesnt-take-action-against-extremist-content/
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This whole thing is a joke.
The people worried about content in media, that can’t police themselves from corporate greed and over-reaching power in government. Good times.
r/somethingiswrong2024
The US itself is increasingly becoming unsafe, wrong priorities.
Yet anyone can post the most abhorrent shit on twitter with zero government oversight
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You can use Steam to literally download things where you play with guns.
I feel secondhand embarrassment for how toothless these letters are. Warner and Hassan aren’t the first people to complain about extremist content on Steam (or its status as a monopoly, for that matter). But there’s zero appetite in the Senate to take any meaningful action against Valve.
Sounds like a certain senator got his ass whipped in CoD & then they shit talked him in the lounge.
So censorship ?
hes just still really mad about episode 3 and this is how he takes it out on Gaben
***TLDR***
U.S. Senator Mark Warner has criticised Valve’s Steam platform for not adequately addressing extremist content. This follows a report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that accused Steam of “normalising hate and extremism.” In a letter to Valve CEO Gabe Newell, Warner warned that the company could face increased federal scrutiny unless it improves its content moderation practices, which he claims currently allow hate speech and harmful ideologies to flourish. Warner has requested detailed answers regarding Steam’s policies, enforcement measures, and plans to tackle these issues by December 13.
Influencers “hate” censorship even though their platforms center around censoring others and the truth.
No shade but our government kind of brought this on themselves because they were low-key doing the same thing.
It’s $9 billion of revenue to a privately held firm and the vultures are starting to eye it now.
I actually get it. It’s talking about the community area of steam. The community posts and profile content. A lot of it has extremist shit including pro-pedo shit. There does need to be more moderation in the community areas
I have bad news: the *world* is an unsafe place for teens and young adults and we should probably do something about that first
80 percent of what they defined as extremist content was Pepe the Frog profile pics…. Pepe belonged to online nerds before it belonged to the alt right.
This Mark Warner dude is trying to be the next Joe Lieberman apparently. Shits pathetic, all the problems in this country, including the fucking Wafflehouse SS walking through Ohio the other day, and your focused on profile pics on a gaming forum.
Pathetic. Hopefully Gabe Newell tells them to get bent.
Your action reflects what’s in your heart.
Anybody who has spent even 2 minutes on Steam discussion boards can recognize this
US senator should create a account and put a swastika on it and see what happens.
Any guess what party alignment this senator has? Any guesses?
Post a Pepe, get banned on Steam, lose access to the games you paid for.
Man, this timeline is weird af
Fox News, Breitbart, and Donald Trump are extremists, and they don’t care about that!
Fuck them!
OH, No! Scrutiny!
We’ve got sitting govt officials making the most extremist statements, maybe they ought to clean up their own acts first?
Racism, sexism, dehumanizing brown folks, Islamophobia from US senators is so rampant.
Heaven forbid parents took responsibility for their own children.
Warner’s party is falling out of power and is in no shape to make such threats. Statements like these are partially to blame for the election results in the first place. People are tired of the gaslighting, schoolmarm attitude.
LMAO,
Valves response probably:
“all of the data they outlined, valve will just make it private”
And I was already pissed when they removed ‘The Elden Bling’
This is the third anti Gabe article.
Someone out there really hates him and is not looking to compete fairly with steam.
Lol they would make steam a party to the war on drugs if they had their way 🤡
I’ve been on steam since 2015 or so. Had no clue there was some sort of comment section???
I just play my games. What the hell else is going on there?
Ugh, I don’t want to have to see the government trying to scapegoat games again.
Shameless senator fuckwits. Why don’t they take action against xitter or Instagram which is a million times worse
Ah, we got a new Lieberman.
Church is a far more unsafe place for children. I dont see the government doing anything about that.
First things first, Senator: Truth Social and Twitter. Clean up that mess and *then* you *may* come back.
Until I see the government arrest one person on the Epstein flight list leave Gabe Newell and Steam the fuck alone.