US Senator Warner Presses Valve to Crack Down on Hateful Accounts and Rhetoric Proliferating on Steam

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• Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As nice as this would be, it sounds like it’s trying to limit free speech.

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  • Adalast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the central myth of “free speech” under the 1st Amendment.

    The 1st Amendment only protects individuals exercising speech and expression from laws being passed or used to silence said speech or expression and from agents of the government abridging the rights. That is a lot, but it is also all. Private citizens are allowed to abridge each other’s speech as much as we like. Private companies can censor whatever they want. This is why the guy wrote a letter to Steam, because literally ANY larger action would have crossed the line.

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• Yokozuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If anyone read the report about the hate comments, you would know that they consider Pepe to fall into this category and was the OVERWHELMING majority of the percentage of what they refer to as hate speech… and it is just a frog. Pepe was 1st in percentage while swastikas were 2nd at 9% - just to give you an idea. Also steam has over a billion users, over a hundred million active users and if you crunch the numbers, it is less than a percent of accounts posting this thing of material. I’m not saying racist shit on steam isn’t a problem, but they’re blowing it up way out of its actual scope.

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• Darkard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Politicians would be better focusing on things that matter like how the Democrats lost the election to Trump and how they’re going to win the midterms.

  A crappy paper finding rude words and phrases on steam is not really worthy of anyone’s attention but Valve’s

  “Millions” of examples sounds dramatoc until you look at how many billions of exchanges have been made in valves forums and comment pages. It needs addressing but it’s not of international or even national importance.

  Instead of virtue signalling, Warren should be asking how the Dems managed to allow Biden a free ride through the primaries, held on til the bitter end blocking alternatives and then endorsing Harris blocking any debate.

  I’d rather Warren focus on fixing the Democratic Party. A bit of democracy in the Democrat party would be a start.

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  • icecreamtaco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Virtue Signaling has to be one of the most overused phrases this decade. People are just trying to do good things

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  • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just a quick correction, this is Mark Warner, not Elizabeth Warren. Otherwise I agree with you though.

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    • unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Guy wrote an essay on an article he didn’t read.

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• PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Feels like the Steam community groups and discussions are so massive that it’s going to be an impossible job to start managing it now, unless they just nuke the entire thing and start over.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It got noticeably worse in the summer of last year. I have no idea what actually changed around then, but that was the first time the Steam forums were so toxic that it may not have been worth asking your question.

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