I've seen whole threads in game forums dedicated to Nazism, and I myself have been called a "groomer" and the t-slur because people knew be as a boy before I transitioned. Legitimately horrible place, they absolutely need to take more action against this.
Blazingtransfem98
joined 9 months ago
It happens in games that have chat as well, mostly shooter games like CS2 and TF2. Consider yourself lucky if you haven't encountered people like that, they're not hard to miss unfortunately in those games.
I recently started playing some games and I was called slurs in the in-game chat, also by people on my friends list because I'm a girl now, and they knew me as a boy (Yay, transphobia /s).
Once you get into the realm of terrorism, threatening real world harm, calling for violence against minorities. It's no longer subjective, it's considered extremist and dangerous. In other words, your rights end where others' begin.
Many people also don't know how to recognize thinly veiled hate speech or dog whistles. So it flies over most people's heads and looks like normal discussions, even though it isn't.
Go to Gmod, TF2, CS2, Call of Duty. Popular fighting games. Gmod and TF2 have some of the worst offenders there in my experience. Though the Dustborn forum is basically a 4chan clone with how much people hate that game, not even because the game isn't good but because they hate queer people and are racist pigs.
I don't think that Nazi shit or promotion of terrorism falls under "mean things on the internet" that would be over-trivializing, and I do say that because I have indeed seen many people doing these things in my years on Steam, as well as encouraging violence towards me for being a girl and having "used to have been a boy" (being transgender).
Honestly it's about fucking time. The unmoderated hate speech on their platform has gone on long enough. Many people don't realize just how bad it is but I recently hopped on some servers and I got called "tranny" and "groomer" because people knew me and they knew I "used to be a boy" (not true, I never was a boy, just in-denial). I've also seen people pushing Nazi shit on Steam community discussions and in-game on official servers, it's insanely bad.
Check their history, they seem like an alt-right troll
How many more of your comments are AI generated?
How about because AI generation is prone to misinformation, is often straight up plagarism, and finally is just lazy and low effort garbage.
@letsu@feddit.org Need your input on this as the admin of this person's homeserver, are you thrilled about people on your server posting this kind of lazy ass AI spam in the rest of the fediverse?
Of course they don't, companies only care when Pepsi Co and P&G take away their ad revenue for serving extremist content and catering to extremists. Valve has no ad revenue and is the only real PC game store on the block, so no one can make them "care" the way YouTube and Twitch, and other platforms are made to "care".