Government involvement is going to be the wild card this time around. Don't be surprised if the DoJ gets involved, via the FBI, and some obvious false flags happen, like the Whitmore kidnapping Fed Op. The Feds are not known for their imagination when it comes to thinking up ways to smear dissident groups.
US still has freedom of speech but there is a decent probability that the UK government will make Steam take down the curator group for "hate" something or another.
Steam is a private company whose headquarters are in Washington state. The UK government can't make them do shit. Doubt Gabe wants to piss off all the gamers around the world just to appease the government of a country that contains a small portion of all the Steam gamers.
Saw that over the weekend.
Government involvement is going to be the wild card this time around. Don't be surprised if the DoJ gets involved, via the FBI, and some obvious false flags happen, like the Whitmore kidnapping Fed Op. The Feds are not known for their imagination when it comes to thinking up ways to smear dissident groups.
US still has freedom of speech but there is a decent probability that the UK government will make Steam take down the curator group for "hate" something or another.
Steam is a private company whose headquarters are in Washington state. The UK government can't make them do shit. Doubt Gabe wants to piss off all the gamers around the world just to appease the government of a country that contains a small portion of all the Steam gamers.
They can hide the curator group to people connecting through the UK Steam servers
OK, and? that's not taking it down. i don't really give a damn if they hide it for judeo-commie-controlled UK.