Bluesky Post (this was also posted on twitter)

I was hoping to find a statement from the aggressor, but it seems to be too early.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 months ago

      It’s it anti video games to point out something that is actually happening? Just because you love the company doesn’t mean that any bad news is an attack against the industry. Valve doesn’t want to moderate their forums, it was bound to happen.

      • Voyajer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Valve doesn’t want to moderate their forums

        Devs and publishers are mods of their forums, if it’s too much for them they can add community mods or lock their forums (like some do).

        • ahornsirup@feddit.orgEnglish
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          9 months ago

          And ultimately they’re still Valve’s responsibility. If you provide a platform, you’re responsible for what people do on it.

          • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Actually this is the purpose of section 230, to remove the responsibility of the provider in terms of content. The steam discussion forums would be a form of social media and therefore steam as a whole under at least US law would not be responsible for the content that’s posted on it.

            Please note that this doesn’t mean that they can’t moderate their forums, section 230 does allow the owner of the platform to dictate what they want on the forums as long as they’re acting in good faith.

            In my opinion section 230 is healthy for an environment, because it’s primary purpose was to prevent an individual from being able to sue the company as a whole for Content that someone else posted, which in my opinion is fair. If someone produced libel against someone, that’s something they need to handle with the person who posted it. It doesn’t make logical sense for the person to go after the platform that held the content as they wern’t involved in that process.

      • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I am a big GOG enjoyer myself, but when I need to use steam for anything, I have never encountered such content. Perhaps there is such content in private or otherwise not very visible spaces (such as user profiles), where they will not get reported, but that is true for any site with user content. I call BS on this being an issue.

        • ahornsirup@feddit.orgEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Really? Because in my experience you have to wade through racist, homo- and transphobic, and misogynistic shit the second you foolishly open the discussions page on any game that features black or brown, LGBTQIA, and/or female characters.

          • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            As I said, I have never seen anything I would consider extremist myself. Though from your reply, I get the feeling the issue could be an unreasonably broad definition of extremist content on your side. That or I just happen to not visit games with such discussions.