It’s strange to me that previously accepted criticism can retroactively become censorship the moment something comes along that’s deliberately tacky and edgy. Almost as if, to some people, free speech is really only about having the freedom to be a dick.
I hear your concerns. I won’t be reading replies to this comment, but rest assured I hear you!
I remember when the United States was feared and respected across the world. They got shit done, looked after their citizens, and led by example. Now all they seem to do is talk in circles about issues, making themselves feel better while solving nothing.
I mean they’re just not playing morality police any more. I feel it’s quite a fine change, since morality is subjective and dependent on culture, and steam is international. Let players decide what is worth paying for in terms of morality.
Do people actually think that these games like Active Shooter won’t exist if Steam doesn’t sell them? All Jim is saying is that Valve should have some fucking standards for what they put on their platform. It’s really not that deep
Don’t you know that any platform have quality control is a form of censorship? That is why I will be demanding Penguin Books for not publishing my novel titled “How major Macme is the best, because I know Bush did 9/11 to portect us form the Reptilian F*gotts and their lies about the Holocost”. They tried to censorship my ideas citing that “they may be held accountable” for publishing “what is basically the ramblings of a racist mad man after a bad mushroom trip”. They also cited other things that for them “justified” my censorship, like the characters were incoherent and even changed names during the novel and that it was “full of very obvious spelling errors, even when using slurs” and “plotholes that could make the massive black ones in the center of our galaxy envious” or that “a quarter of the novel is just butchered cites of the Quran, where it changes Muhammad for Coronel selfinsert and heathens for Reptilians”. But these are excuses to hide it’s censorship, because, even if I’m legally allowed to publish my novel in my own page, a private platform deciding that my novel is not suited for publication in their line is clearly a violation of my free speech.
There is a picture being spread around from the G7 (or G6+1) summit of Trump sitting folding his arms while being talked to like a spoiled brat refusing to listen and do his job.
That is Steam right now.
Jim: Content providers who do not self regulate invite scrutiny by law makers, leading to the restriction of everyone’s freedom of expression through legally enforced regulation.
People: I don’t know what a straw man argument is, but I think that qualifies.
I love how the sheer lazyness of valve in managing steam has become so politicized as to become such a big issue. Seriously, this is not about free speech guys, it’s about valve shrugging off all responsibility for their actions(or lack thereof).
Who… who is the oily man
Hey is it just me or is the intro song…different? Like it’s a new or re-recorded version? I kind of hope to find out Drill Queen got in contact with Jim and are making a comeback…
Also that footage was horrific… and I’m not talking about the ants eating that thing alive while it screams…
Uh oh, Jim’s throwing a fit. *Grabs Popcorn*
The thing free speech bros tend to forget is that freedom of speech includes the right to not only tell others to shut up, but to have the rowdy idiot revmoved from the premise. Social media is like an open mic night at a popular club, anyone can get up on stage, and anyone can get booed off it, and, more importantly, the management has the right to decide who gets removed for being too rowdy or too disruptive, and whom to ban from the establishment. The important thing is that one isn’t imprisoned for saying or thinking a thing, that is not the same as being banned from social media for breaking the rules.(Anyone who thinks otherwise is welcome to take a trip to North Korea and scream mean things about little Kimmy, let me know how it goes.)
I think you are strawmaning the other side really hard here. I think everyone would agree that the game is shit quality, but I appreciate steam drawing a line in the Sand when it comes to content that can be put in games and sold on their store. You act very dismissive to the otherside but there is a pattern of outrage mobs telling companies and groups that they are not allowed to say, act, or sell certain things deemed offensive. Then soon after words those communities and organizations tend to start deteriorating. Also we have no idea if in the future there would be a game that would put you in the role of a school shooter and would have a legitimate message to send with a quality product to back it up. I don’t think it is likely but it could happen. When people who take offense at something try to get a company to take a product down, they rarely stop there because it’s not about real moral outrage most of the time but power. At least that’s how I see the situation.
Freedom>>>Censorship
I mean, I agree with the sentiment that quality control is not censorship, but, fucking hell, that was a salt avalanche.
You know its getting harder and harder to tell the difference between when hes trying to spout off insane BS and what his real non ironic opinion is.
Which is a better video platform, youtube or the escapist?
Youtube, because they (mostly) allow anyone to publish and recomend the best content.
Look, most of us are with you on quality control. But when you say “Valve will get themselves censored and interfered with” and “That’s how regulations happen”…you’re missing the point. The only way to stop regulation of speech from happening is to defy. The only reason LGBT broke into the mainstream is because LGBT entertainers defied the decades of censorship that marginalized them. People are realizing that the FCC’s practices of the Hayes era were borderline if not outright unconstitutional. If it has to be fought in the courts then so be it.
I still agree with your similar stance that game companies need to self regulate lest they regulated from without when it comes to microtransactions, and that’s true since the constitution affords no protection to gambling.