Steam was founded on the concept that piracy was a service problem, not a price one.
Steam had best remember those roots. People are willing to pay, and to pay good money (as proven by Steam itself), for a reasonable gaming platform that shuts up and distributes games. But they're also quite willing to engage in other platforms should that one no longer be a service they may freely enjoy.
The ADL, the SIC, and the CIA can winge all they want about it, there's no illegal content. And if there's nothing illegal, they can fuck off. It's a platform (in the regards of operations as to what they're complaining about), not a publisher. You don't go to the phone company to try to make them curtail "hateful content".
They don't care. They'll twist laws, conjure new ones, use unelected governmental beaurocrats to pass edicts, and use all manner of social pressure to stamp out ideas, words, actions, and people that are dangerous to them and their scheming.
Steam was founded on the concept that piracy was a service problem, not a price one.
Back in the day the main reason was to undercut Sierra and other game publishers, and it was hated because why the fuck would you need an online connection to play Half Life 2.
Nowadays the philosophy behind it is indeed the one you mention, and the 3 letter stooges can fuck off
You're assuming that the government will play by some imaginary set of "rules". They make the laws and if they want to get you, they will change the laws.
The government will never be neutral. It is always an evil. Some argue a necessary evil that we need to shackle and restrict, but it will always still be an evil.
Steam was founded on the concept that piracy was a service problem, not a price one.
Steam had best remember those roots. People are willing to pay, and to pay good money (as proven by Steam itself), for a reasonable gaming platform that shuts up and distributes games. But they're also quite willing to engage in other platforms should that one no longer be a service they may freely enjoy.
The ADL, the SIC, and the CIA can winge all they want about it, there's no illegal content. And if there's nothing illegal, they can fuck off. It's a platform (in the regards of operations as to what they're complaining about), not a publisher. You don't go to the phone company to try to make them curtail "hateful content".
They don't care. They'll twist laws, conjure new ones, use unelected governmental beaurocrats to pass edicts, and use all manner of social pressure to stamp out ideas, words, actions, and people that are dangerous to them and their scheming.
That's antisemitic conspiracy theory
Back in the day the main reason was to undercut Sierra and other game publishers, and it was hated because why the fuck would you need an online connection to play Half Life 2.
Nowadays the philosophy behind it is indeed the one you mention, and the 3 letter stooges can fuck off
You're assuming that the government will play by some imaginary set of "rules". They make the laws and if they want to get you, they will change the laws.
The government will never be neutral. It is always an evil. Some argue a necessary evil that we need to shackle and restrict, but it will always still be an evil.