Incredibly valuable piece.

It's very hard to imagine on a technical level how this kind of censorship issue could occur as a glitch.

To be clear, 32-bit games will continue to work.

So am I misunderstanding or is the problem that the set of "victims of communism" setminus the set of all fascists is too small and fuzzy to be a Schelling point people can agree on?

If they were serious about privacy-preserving age verification, they'd be looking at zero-knowledge proofs. Since ZKP is not on the table, this is really about control and surveillance.

Yeah one time my passport got slightly wet -- just enough to make it a bit crinkly -- and my gov't forced me to process it as "damaged" and pay a fine

The sufragette movement pressured the government (men) to give women the right to vote. In what universe is this not an accurate description of what happened?

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

It being ubiquitous does not mean it makes no sense. They can still say how and to what extent gen AI was used.

I have no strong opinion on whether this was or was not intended to be a nazi salute. The bigger issue in my opinion is how Musk reacted to people asking him to confirm that it was not intended to be a nazi salute. Deflection, jokes, ridicule, and tacit approval. All served to bolster the white supremacists watching -- and this, for sure, was intended.

this is like a 2 year old meme at this point. Please don't strip out the date when you take a screenshot of social media.

If only all monopolies were so user-positive.

I suspect what's unique in valve's case is that they don't have investors and board members and other stakeholders to lead them toward short-term profit maximization.