Senator Mark Warner’s letter follows an ADL report about extremist content on the platform.
US Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has sent a letter to Valve CEO Gabe Newell asking if the company intends to take measures to curtail extremist content on Steam. The letter references a report by the Anti-Defamation League that identified a large number of user accounts and user-created groups “that glorified antisemitic, Nazi, white supremacist, gender- and sexuality-based hate, and other extremist ideologies” on the PC gaming platform.
The letter features a high-level view of the kind of hateful content the ADL found on Steam. That includes “40,000 groups with names that included hateful words, with the most prominent being ‘1488,’ ‘shekel,’ and ‘white power’.”
Yes. We 100% need this, badly. But fascism has been on the rise even in countries with strong social programs like Germany and France, so you really can’t blame this entirely on capitalism run rampant, though it certainly fanned the flames and needs to be addressed.
I think a bigger part of the problem is silicon valley fomenting fear and outrage for profits. Tech bros like Elon Musk and Zucc the Succ are manufacturing this crisis because it makes them ungodly amounts of money, power, and influence.
Germany and France are fucked by neoliberals so the problem remains