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Steam accused of 'normalizing hate and extremism in the gaming community' in new ADL report (www.pcgamer.com)

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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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[–] Sludger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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