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Steam accused of 'normalizing hate and extremism in the gaming community' in new ADL report (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 2 months ago by gedaliyah to c/technology
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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

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[–] Erasmus 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] HC4L 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

You wanna say Russians?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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.)