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
“Aims to support Israel” is all I need to hear to shut my ears.
They’re getting big mad that they’re being called out for genocide. Cry harder.
I think one can criticise valve for not doing enough to moderate their platform while also not supporting genocide.
This would have a lot more weight coming from a human rights organization than from genocide lobbyists.
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.
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.)
