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[–] j4p@lemm.ee 102 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not to excuse any hate speech of any kind, but looking around at social media and the effect it has especially on young people and saying "steam forums are the problem" seems like missing the forest for the trees

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

who said steam forums are “the” problem?

[–] j4p@lemm.ee 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Me. There's just an irony in pointing out the failure of Steam to effectively moderate (true) when Twitter has a much larger footprint, seems to be actively encouraging hate speech not just tolerating it, and is being rewardered for such behavior. The article points this out too:

There's an aspect of irony to the complaint: Elon Musk turned Twitter into a haven for racism and far-right rhetoric, after all, and he's being rewarded with a high seat in the incoming US government.

Senators only have so much time to pick and choose which issues to raise awareness about, so Steam seems like a weird fight to pick given the wider landscape ¯_(ツ)_/¯ . Could just be there's a much higher chance of getting an actual change from Steam than a larger social media platform.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

yeah I think it's fair to argue there are bigger problems that steam.