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Steam Reportedly Blocks LGBTQ+ Game Tag In China, Following Similar Censorship In Russia (www.thegamer.com)
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[–] 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (25 children)

“All Steam Games With LGBTQ+ Content Blocked From Release in China and Russia Due to Local Bigorty Laws Limiting Such Content”

Funny how rearranging a few words can shift blame around. Thanks, Fascist propagandists, and their collaborators.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Exactly, its the county's fault, not steams fault.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It's amazing how valve gets a free pass.

    Coke has the balls to even just sell their product in Russia: you fucking greedy donkey.

    Valve goes along blocking lgtb games, just following orders boss.

    Just fantastic.

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

    So what should steam do, break the law in those countires?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Stop selling games. Leave the country and tell people to fuck off. Cause outage.

    Out of every big company out there, steam has the easiest path forward to do so. No shareholders. Gabe can easily do what's right. He won't though. Too busy playing scientist on his yacht funding his kids racing career while moron gamers give him a free pass on his monopoly because valve is such a cool company 🙄.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    How is that going for McDonalds in Iran. Has the people outraged the government yet?

    Should they withdraw from the US as well for their support of Israel? Or their immigration abuses? Or for the rampant corruption?

    Companies generally operate in any country meeting the requirements of anyone that is not in breach of international law.

    Leave activism to people and politicians.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (17 children)

    I think putting (edit: some of) the heat on Valve here is reasonable. If they had a principled stance on being pro-LGBTQ+, they might refuse to sell any games in those regions. But they are choosing instead to let the lgbtq+ folks take the hit so that they can continue to rake in the big bucks from those regions.

    Obviously I wouldn't actually expect an enormous capital driven machine like Valve to do something like that, but its just an extra nudge on the gauge of my opinion of them as a company

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    Are you okay with losing all your Steam games once your country also passes such a law?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    I'd cheer valve on for taking a principled stance against bigotry in my country while personally grieving the loss of my steam library.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I doubt it'll make a difference. Also almost all my LGBTQ friends are huge gamers. It's an escape, and often provides online community. And I'm in a very liberal country and they still need it here. Can't imagine the need for it in China or Russia. Whether that's healthy is a big question, but the rug pull definitely won't be.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Be a good little fedi, put your money where you mouth is and get ready to sacrifice. Jesus Christ, 'waahhhhh, I'd have to start stealing my games '.

    Jesus Christ the second valve gets involved you all become spinless DNC cunts.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah so this isn't about me. It's about millions of lonely kids. Plenty will learn to pirate. Many won't. I'm sure we'd see an uptick in suicides.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👌👍

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    @makeshift0546 @TheBlackLounge What is funny ? The fact some won't be able to pirate games because of ignorance or repression ?

    Fuck all domination, oppression, and exploitation systems. That of course includes capitalism and LGBTQIA+phobia. That also includes elitism, classism, ableism, etc. These lists are not exhaustive.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Be a good little fedi, put your money where you mouth is and get ready to sacrifice. Jesus Christ, 'waahhhhh, I'd have to start stealing my games '.

    Jesus Christ the second valve gets involved you all become spinless DNC cunts.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Steam didn’t make the decision, China and Russia did

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    They're not even blocked. Valve did the absolute bare minimum to skirt past China's restrictions. The only thing they did was make it so you can't search or filter by that tag. The tagged games themselves remain accessible.

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