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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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[-] parpol@programming.dev 40 points 1 day ago

Pepe the frog and swastikas are the most common extremist symbols found on Steam, according to the report, respectively representing 54.6% and 9.1% of detected symbols.

So more than half of the "extremist" symbols are a meme that a tiny fraction of conspiracy theorists think is a dogwhistle for racism.

Game mods are also touched on in the report, which claims to have found hundreds of mods for games, most notably Garry's Mod, "that specifically reference mass shootings."

Who even thinks this is a big deal? This screams boomers being upset about violent video games all over again.

Are you sure they're not just pissy about the DEI Detected community and want to force steam to shut it down?

[-] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago

Who even thinks this is a big deal? This screams boomers being upset about violent video games all over again.

While its not a big deal, at least for Gmod specifically, they really could use some further moderation. I've seen some pretty reprehensible stuff there. The most recent example that comes to mind is "Burning Ukrainian Soldiers" on the front page (complete with combat footage to compare against and racist description of Ukranians), but that sort of thing is not rare at all.

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