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Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

As a long time Steam user, while I still really like Steam and think it's the more consumer friendly platform, it has devolved greatly. Especially discussion forums are nearly no different than reddit toxicity where people exhibit their worst behaviors. I miss the legitimate discussions and love for specific games. Now it's mostly complaining and complete disregard for developers being humans.

The flood of garbage games has also been fairly obvious over the last decade. Some filters on your account handle a lot of this at least for the adult ones, but not all of it. It reminds me of the Wii shovelware era, but far worse.

BUT I would remind the Senator they STILL don't even have a fucking budget passed for this fiscal year we are already a month and a half into and they oughta stay in their lane and do their first basic god damn job before pointing at the supposed failures of others.

[–] setsneedtofeed 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think anything good can come of the government deciding to crack down on Steam moderation in order to "save the children".

The current situation of Steam having a toxic forum community in places is better than whatever happens with "scrutiny".

If I may put on a tinfoil hat for a moment, this recent push to get Steam labeled as an extremist den that needs to be dealt with feels like yet another attack originating from competitors.

[–] njm1314 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This isn't the government cracking down, this is the senator writing a letter. There's no force of government behind this. It's simply someone in power bringing light to a problem. A problem that we all should acknowledge exists, because it's very easy to verify.

[–] setsneedtofeed 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is a Senator firing an opening salvo with a vague threat of government action.

Warner also warned, somewhat ominously, that if Valve does not adopt industry-standard moderation practices—whatever that means—it will "face more intense scrutiny from the federal government for its complicity in allowing hate groups to congregate and engage in activities that undoubtedly puts Americans at risk."

Nothing has been done with government force, yet. Maybe he will drop it, maybe he won't, but at the moment I'm responding to a Senator floating the idea of using government power to wade into Steam forums.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I'm sure they're able to walk and chew bubble gum at the same time, if you want the government to work on only one thing at a time things will be even worse than they are.