Steam accused of 'normalizing hate and extremism in the gaming community' in new ADL report
Steam accused of 'normalizing hate and extremism in the gaming community' in new ADL report
The Anti-Defamation League says it's found "millions of examples of extremist and hateful content" on the platform.
The Anti-Defamation League, a US organization that aims to combat antisemitism and support Israel, has published a report alleging that Steam is "rife with extremism and antisemitism," and accusing Valve of allowing the spread of hateful and extremist material through a "highly permissive approach to content policy."
The ADL's Center on Extremism found "found millions of examples of extremist and hateful content, including explicit hate symbols like sonnenrads and 'happy merchants,' as well as copypastas (blocks of text that are copied and pasted to form images or long-form writing) shaped into swastikas" being shared on the platform. The ADL also found "tens of thousands of pieces of terrorism-related content on Steam Community," including more than 15,000 public accounts with profile pictures featuring the flags or logos of ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas
“Aims to support Israel” is all I need to hear to shut my ears.
They’re getting big mad that they’re being called out for genocide. Cry harder.
I think one can criticise valve for not doing enough to moderate their platform while also not supporting genocide.
This would have a lot more weight coming from a human rights organization than from genocide lobbyists.
Sounds like BS.
I’ve been on Steam for years and I’ve never seen it. I’m sure it probably exists in the dark corners if you go searching for it but it’s not openly present like it is on FB and Zitter.
What region are you from and what games do you play? Because playing Counter Strike as a European gets me in contact with a lot of Eastern European players and lord have I seem some shit on those profiles.
You wanna say Russians?
I definitely saw someone named "TripleK" (not a euphemism, it wasn't KKK) playing Secret Hitler on Board Game Simulator. They kept saying a bunch of racist shit. I remember saying "it's called Secret Hitler, not obvious Hitler" lol. I tried reporting their account but don't remember what happened.
That's the only time I can ever specifically remember seeing someone being anti semitic on Steam. (Not saying it doesn't happen more.)
Adl sounds compromised.
Not compromised.
They've been hypocrites for as long as I can remember.
As a true centrisy, for every "Six Days in Fallujah" I want one "Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque". Fuck the ADL.
The ADL is an anti-semitic organization for depicting jewish people as inherently supportive of colonialism, apartheid, genocide, etc.
They're completely unreliable and backwards as an accurate gauge of anti-semitism.
I guess I'm playing different games because I've been on Steam like 14 years and have only seen a handful of issues, all reported and banned.
Frankly, I doubt that this trend of hatefulness will change. Just going on trending pages on any game community (ex. Workshop, News, and Guides) will subject anyone with the some of the most outrageous and vile BS. Hell, just this week I found people having a discussion on a workshop page on how they want to eliminate minorities. Following by just a day, I seen multiple trolls on the patch notes of games that I follow doing a copypasta of games needing forced lgbtq representation.
I am getting tired of this demeaning content which just subjects minorities to hate. Suggesting that I am a mistake, and people like myself should just kill ourselves. I am tired of this nonesense. The only good thing that came out of this is that I know Steam moderation works, but only passively untill called out.
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I'm pretty sure the stance valve takes is "if it is legal, it will stay up", but please correct me if I'm wrong.
outlaw these hate symbols and maybe we will see change, much like Germany does with nazi symbols. I wonder why they won't do that. hmm....................