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Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell
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this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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What? What the fuck, democrats?
First off - cool letter bro, I've always wanted to write one but unfortunately we are in the current century. I don't know what kind of a pretentious cuntwaffle you have to be to write a letter at this point in time, but apparently it helps if you're a senator.
Second - really? Valve should moderate user scrrenshots to make sure there are no swastikas? What if I have a swastika tattooed on my face and the pic is a closeup shot? What if my swastika is related to Hinduism, not fascism? Listen, cumstain - if you're not gonna do your job as a government and you'll allow extremist speech by hiding behind your 'freedom of speech' bullshit, don't be surprised when a corporation can't do it either. What, the KKK is too hard to stamp out for the US government, so let's put Valve on the job? A Neonazi fuck just won another presidential campaign, you're telling me your country is against swastikas? Fuck outta here.
And third - I'd really like to know what makes steam "unsafe for teens and young adults". Is valve impregnating kids now? Do they carry measles in their steam decks? Is gaben running with scissors in school hallways? Or is it just that you're an out of touch cunt who last understood technology when horse power involved actual horses?
Jesus christ, chill the hell out. 💀
Who still writes letters anymore? Uh... A lot of people? Especially sitting senators to massive, multi-billion-dollar corporations? Would you have preferred they go on some shitty social media platform to write "ayo get your shit together fr fr"? Fellas, is it ~~gay~~ pretentious to use your position in government to bring attention to an issue? Have you never written a letter?
One of the reasons a neo-Nazi fuck just won the election is because these online spaces allow fascist rhetoric to run rampant. (Edit: probably also the general attitude that shuns literacy and intellectualism, like "writing a letter? how pretentious lmaooo") You're bringing up a nonsensical, extreme edge case to justify why action shouldn't be taken in 99.999% of cases. I also as a Hindu (a religion I'm sure you actually understand or care about) get a facial swastika tattoo and then post that as my pfp to Steam. Definitely how that really works in the actual real world.
Writing coherently about an actual issue facing a platform like Steam actually shows that he's more in-touch than most politicians. You sound deeply insecure.
This entire comment oozes intellectual dishonesty.