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Valve bows to Kremlin: LGBTQ+ solitaire game [Flick Solitaire] pulled from russian Steam [cited a 2006 federal law prohibiting the "promotion of non-traditional sexualities"] (www.player.one)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 11 points 9 months ago (24 children)

I mean, if you want to operate in a country, you follow their laws when in the country?

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (15 children)

    How about having some fucking backbone?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    That's how to cease operating in a country.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Valve should cease operating in Russia.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    That just fucks over gamers, not the Russian government.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    An angry enough people overthrows their government. Depriving the people will get them closer to that

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    So?

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    It's not as simple as about backbone. I agree that ethics are a good reason to stop doing business with an individual but if a company like Valve were to pull out of every country based on ethical matters, they'd need to found their own country.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Not every country wants people like me dead.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Not every country has decent civic rights. Yet Steam doesn't operate in only 4 and these are the ones US has issued a ban to trade with.

    And as we are on topic of pulling out of operating in Russia, many western companies did so, yet since initial "withdrawal" in 2022 some had reinstated their businesses. And noone is taking about it. 🤷

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Generally yes, but legality is not ethics.

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  • [–] -5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Where do you draw that line?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Start here?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    Okay, we'll impose Canadian morals, ethics and laws across the world. /s

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