Senator Mark Warner’s letter follows an ADL report about extremist content on the platform.
US Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has sent a letter to Valve CEO Gabe Newell asking if the company intends to take measures to curtail extremist content on Steam. The letter references a report by the Anti-Defamation League that identified a large number of user accounts and user-created groups “that glorified antisemitic, Nazi, white supremacist, gender- and sexuality-based hate, and other extremist ideologies” on the PC gaming platform.
The letter features a high-level view of the kind of hateful content the ADL found on Steam. That includes “40,000 groups with names that included hateful words, with the most prominent being ‘1488,’ ‘shekel,’ and ‘white power’.”
We have Nazis in the White House. I guess America is a Nazi country.
Fine, but this guy just teed himself up perfectly for Gabe to come back with, “What’s with all the Nazis in your senate?”
Nazis do not just spring fully formed in the Aristotelian tradition from nothing specifically into the Steam forums. All of these motherfuckers are actual people with actual odious viewpoints. A lot of them probably voted for your colleagues. Maybe a better question is, “Why are there still Nazis, and what do we do about it?”
Sure but a game of whataboutism isn’t a strong argument. If Steam has a Nazi problem they should be outlining how they’re fixing it. They can definitely compare themselves to other platforms, but you lead with what YOU’RE doing. If the majority are coming from Twitter you can point that out. But at the end of the day either prove how you’re fixing it or why it isn’t as big of a problem as stated.
They sure do have a lot of leeway on steam. It’s time we recognize that it’s a form of social media with the same real-world consequences.
Why are there still Nazis, and what do we do about it?
Social welfare programs, like in Nordic countries. Fascists have been exploiting the poor for their rise to power for eons.
The Steam forums are fucking awful. Filled with bigotry and nazis complaining about gaming be woke. There’s literally a list of “Woke games” for people to avoid, it has thousands of games on there.
When people talk about the new Dragon Age, it’s filled with people calling it woke propaganda and pushing the transgender ideology all because it has a trans character that you can’t not accept.
If you ever wonder “should I go on the steam forums to check this one thing I’m curious about?” The answer is always no.
It’s so annoying while trying to troubleshoot issues I may have with a game. I used to get upset when a dev goes nuclear and deletes a bunch of comments or moderates the forums like a hawk, but the forums are basically overrun to the point that I hope they do since I can’t find solutions to my problems without reddit, which usually isn’t helpful either. It’s not like steam is particularly the majority fault, it’s the people using it for what’s it’s not meant for. Seriously dumb brick idiot just need to go to 4chan and complain there, they are far more likely to get positive reinforcement there.
Ahem said the senator who voted no for Bernie Sander’s stop arms sale to Israel:
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00292.htm#name
I wonder for him people who criticise Israel are also included in the set of Nazis while literal Nazis are running rampant in the government.
Senator to Valve: what’s with the kid in my Black Ops lobby saying he had relations with my mom? I don’t think he did, did he?
Hopefully Steam reply, “Hey Senator, what’s with all the Nazis in congress?”
Has the Senator been on Xitter recently ? Always trying to paint games and gamers black.
The overwhelming majority of the symbols they counted as hate speech were Pepe. They are cherry picking data and running with it. Racist shit is a problem on steam but they’re blowing this way out of proportion.
They can’t attack Twitter. They’re too old and dumb to switch to anything else.
It’s the ADL. The Apartheid Defense League.
“what’s with all the Nazis on steam”
They are called gamers. And them buying pedophile anime visual novels and CSGO crates make up 80% of Valve’s turnover
ADL
stopped reading there
Shekel? Since when is that a hateful word…? It’s a currency!
