How would steam handle banned games once America goes Theocratic?

[Last Jackdaw]

Lots of games in the top lists on steam have themes of elder gods (BG3, souls like genre), ♥♥♥ (visual novels), anti state violence/resistance (GTA / almost every FPS ever).

These things would definitely be in the radar to purge in the future Christian America.

How would steam handle this?
Delete your library? Just lock the games out?

As a user should I document ownership in case the worst case occurs?

[Start_Running]

You'd see a STeam USA client

[Haruspex]

Since Valve is a US based company, if sweeping rules against certain kinds of content were passed at a federal level, they would have no choice but to remove them.

However I think they would keep those games to a degree. You wouldn't be able to download or play them, but they would remain associated with your account, even if not visible to the end user. The store pages would either be hidden, or just replaced with a notice about how the game was banned and isn't available.

Then, if/when things settle and such a ban is lifted, all Valve would have to do is flip that switch to make the games available again, and anything you had purchased previously would still be there.

[ReBoot]

"If" is a great way to start a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ conversation. "If" doesn't require any probability/plausibility analysis, an "if" is happily used to come up with the most outrageous of theories. An "if" is a great "excuse" to waste mental resources sources of everyone involved to deal with situations of arbitrary imaginablity.

[Start_Running]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Haruspex:

Since Valve is a US based company, if sweeping rules against certain kinds of content were passed at a federal level, they would have no choice but to remove them.

Or move shop to say.. canada

[Aachen]

If a hypothetical theocratic purge by the U. S. government has progressed to the point where the Bill of Rights is simply irrelevant there will be many more pressing issues than the content of my Steam account.

[miakisfan]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Last Jackdaw:

Lots of games in the top lists on steam have themes of elder gods (BG3, souls like genre), ♥♥♥ (visual novels), anti state violence/resistance (GTA / almost every FPS ever).

These things would definitely be in the radar to purge in the future Christian America.

How would steam handle this?
Delete your library? Just lock the games out?

As a user should I document ownership in case the worst case occurs?

You are under the assumption that this would happen in the first place.

That is all I need to know about your argument.

Diposting pertama kali oleh Aachen:

:deeperperiscope: If a hypothetical theocratic purge by the U. S. government has progressed to the point where the Bill of Rights is simply irrelevant there will be many more pressing issues than the content of my Steam account.

This right here. If you are more worried about your gaming proclivities than you are about other far more important things then I worry more about you and your future then I do gaming in general.

[Last Jackdaw]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Aachen:

:deeperperiscope: If a hypothetical theocratic purge by the U. S. government has progressed to the point where the Bill of Rights is simply irrelevant there will be many more pressing issues than the content of my Steam account.

People act like the US hasn't been like this before.

Japanese Internment Camps?
Operation W****** in the 60s?
Jim Crow?
McCarthyism?

Did the Bill of Rights matter then?

[xBCxRangers]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Start_Running:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Haruspex:

Since Valve is a US based company, if sweeping rules against certain kinds of content were passed at a federal level, they would have no choice but to remove them.

Or move shop to say.. canada

They can do that. But they would still have to adhere to our laws to do business here...

Diposting pertama kali oleh Start_Running:

You'd see a STeam USA client

That is correct.

[RiO]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Start_Running:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Haruspex:

Since Valve is a US based company, if sweeping rules against certain kinds of content were passed at a federal level, they would have no choice but to remove them.

Or move shop to say.. canada

More likely; New Zealand. Isn't that where GabeN resides nowadays?

[Slav Mcgopnik]

It’s not 2004, you can drop the “le republicans are theocrats” thing now.

Bush didn’t do it, Trump didn’t do it in 2016, it’s not going to happen in 2024 either.

[Wolfpig]

Valve would handle that as it does it now for countries in which games are not allowed (or valve not want to put in the work to follow laws so that they could be sold)..... it won't offer that stuff in those countries.

[Chompman]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Last Jackdaw:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Aachen:

:deeperperiscope: If a hypothetical theocratic purge by the U. S. government has progressed to the point where the Bill of Rights is simply irrelevant there will be many more pressing issues than the content of my Steam account.

People act like the US hasn't been like this before.

Japanese Internment Camps?
Operation W****** in the 60s?
Jim Crow?
McCarthyism?

Did the Bill of Rights matter then?

Remember what theocratic means and what the first amendment is for.

The things you mentioned were more focused around the politics at the time and something different then religious freedom.

In fact Christianity is at an all time low in the states and unless they start worshiping Zeus only there is not much more that would work in the region.

[Squirrel With Acorn]

I feel like in the USA, laws against Christians would be more likely to happen.

[AROCK!!!]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Last Jackdaw:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Aachen:

:deeperperiscope: If a hypothetical theocratic purge by the U. S. government has progressed to the point where the Bill of Rights is simply irrelevant there will be many more pressing issues than the content of my Steam account.

People act like the US hasn't been like this before.

Japanese Internment Camps?
Operation W****** in the 60s?
Jim Crow?
McCarthyism?

Did the Bill of Rights matter then?

Neither the Bill of rights, or the Constitution means squat to the Supreme Court.

[AROCK!!!]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Chompman:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Last Jackdaw:

People act like the US hasn't been like this before.

Japanese Internment Camps?
Operation W****** in the 60s?
Jim Crow?
McCarthyism?

Did the Bill of Rights matter then?

Remember what theocratic means and what the first amendment is for.

The things you mentioned were more focused around the politics at the time and something different then religious freedom.

In fact Christianity is at an all time low in the states and unless they start worshiping Zeus only there is not much more that would work in the region.

a few is all it takes...FFS, look at what has happened since that ♥♥♥♥♥ Trump was given the power to appoint judges.