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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)
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[-] jaselle@lemmy.ca 61 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

'This isn't "wokeness", it's basic human rights and equality and nothing more,' he added. 'If Steam can't support free speech of LGBTQ+ people, then at the very least they should be transparent about this.'

What a bizarre response. Neither Roskomnadzor nor Valve claimed this had anything to do with "'wokeness,'" and Steam was in fact transparent about this.

I don't really get what anyone expects Valve to do here other than comply with the law. Still, I'm surprised they're even able to operate in Russia given all the sanctions.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 78 points 4 months ago

Pulling out of Russia entirely is an option. It's not like they're relying on them to stay in business.

[-] jaselle@lemmy.ca 55 points 4 months ago

Well, given the sanctions, this ought to be a given. I don't understand how valve can operate in Russia at all tbh.

[-] makyo@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

Right? That was my question, why are they operating there at all right now

[-] Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

Valve had a big piracy problem in russia and it was ofc because of service issues. While I obviously don't agree with this censorship and would prefer valve to entirely pull out of russia, I can see why they are absolutely not doing that. They want to provide the best PC gaming store service across the world, and they don't want competitors or piracy to eat into their sales

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 19 points 4 months ago

The sanctions did impact Steam's operations in Russia. Russian users currently can't use any payment methods to buy games aside from Steam Wallet funds.

[-] jaselle@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 months ago

Then yeah, I'm surprised valve is cooperating. I suppose they are planning for the future, should the sanctions end.

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