Is the confederate flag banned on steam?

[Francis S]

The title says it. I helped my friend creating a icon for tanks and other stuff in company of heroes 2 and it got banned 3 days later.

[Cathulhu]

Was it banned by Valve or the developer of the game?

[Francis S]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Was it banned by Valve or the developer of the game?

I don't know both. On the workshop agreement there was nothing about the confederate flag not being allowed.

[♠ZerØ♠]

Steam is not reacting like apple and the rest of the PC half-wits. Be calm and play your games.

[Matt]

I don't think there is a rule against it per se, but if the developer doesn't want it then they can get rid of it. I say use a little bit of common sense.

[Naedmi]

It doesn't seem like Valve has a problem, but other game developers may, and they do have the freedom to remove any player made content that they feel like censoring.

[Francis S]

Damn..

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Why would the confederate flag be banned? There are games on Steam with nazi flags, and chinese flags and so on and so forth.

[Lily]

Originally posted by Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Why would the confederate flag be banned? There are games on Steam with nazi flags, and chinese flags and so on and so forth.

There's a difference between depicting your game's fictional nazis as they looked historically, and outright glorifying nazism. Just because a game has one doesn't mean it's ok to do the other. Not that I'm accusing OP of anything, but in light of the confederate flag's association with white supremacists, it's reasonable for a dev to be concerned about it.

[MeganeDamashii]

Originally posted by Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Why would the confederate flag be banned? There are games on Steam with nazi flags, and chinese flags and so on and so forth.

Apparently the recent church shooting in Charleston "triggered debate on its [the Confederate battle flag's] modern display."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting

Some companies might be concerned when it comes to depictions of the flag in their products / platforms.
http://toucharcade.com/2015/06/25/apple-removes-confederate-flag/

[The Giving One]

I have seen users with much worse so I hope not...like I have seen the swastika (actually, the Nazi flag entirely) on one avatar before and that is much worse than any other flag in my opinion.

Originally posted by Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Why would the confederate flag be banned? There are games on Steam with nazi flags, and chinese flags and so on and so forth.

Like this user saw also, perhaps not on an avater but similar IMO.

[Naedmi]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

I have seen users with much worse so I hope not...like I have seen the swastika (actually, the Nazi flag entirely) on one avatar before and that is much worse than any other flag in my opinion.

Originally posted by Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Why would the confederate flag be banned? There are games on Steam with nazi flags, and chinese flags and so on and so forth.

Like this user saw also, perhaps not on an avater but similar IMO.

The >swatstika< (my keyboarding skills is awesome by the way) has become a basic form of trolling on the internet of late. But the confederate flag that has flown in South Carolina for likely more than 100 years now is finally being attacked, we darned racist southerners and our racist tendencies.

It's not like flags more than 100 years old can develop new meanings, it's about race, because it's always about race. I say we make another petition about banning century old things that have yet to be banned. Deleting history has never been so easy.

If anyone truly cared about getting the flag removed, they would have done so before a boy walked into a church and murdered several people. Yet now it's a publicity stunt being held by senators trying to look good to the media, they want those presidential votes next year. Gotta get those votes.

[The Giving One]

Oh I totally agree with you, TheDean. I was somewhat afraid to post it quite as exactly as you did, but you said it just like it is. Very true indeed.

I actually live in SC, too, man !

[Dendrobates Tinctorius]

Originally posted by TheDean:

If anyone truly cared about getting the flag removed, they would have done so before a boy walked into a church and murdered several people.

????
People have been trying for decades. But they keep running into stuff like this:

Originally posted by TheDean:

It's not like flags more than 100 years old can develop new meanings, it's about race, because it's always about race. I say we make another petition about banning century old things that have yet to be banned. Deleting history has never been so easy.

The flag's been used for over 100 years by racists. It hasn't lost that meaning. Heck, even German neonazis use the damn thing since their own flags are banned.

[Naedmi]

Originally posted by Dendrobates Tinctorius:

Originally posted by TheDean:

If anyone truly cared about getting the flag removed, they would have done so before a boy walked into a church and murdered several people.

????
People have been trying for decades. But they keep running into stuff like this:

Originally posted by TheDean:

It's not like flags more than 100 years old can develop new meanings, it's about race, because it's always about race. I say we make another petition about banning century old things that have yet to be banned. Deleting history has never been so easy.

The flag's been used for over 100 years by racists. It hasn't lost that meaning. Heck, even German neonazis use the damn thing since their own flags are banned.

Just hear me out with this one. When do we get to ban the good ol American flag for being linked to the massacre of my Native American brothers and sisters? We were hauled off to "Protected lands" by the very people that scream at Latino people when they "illegally" cross the border. It's nothing different from what they did back in the day. Walts on in, give us "gifts" infected with pox, puff up their chests and point their guns at my people. What have you say for the Confederate flag, since it's so much more different from the American flag.

We're still confined into small bits of land that the Americans call our "home" to this day. Yet we were the first to own the United States through and through.

I'm half Native American from the tribe Cherokee, and I will not forget the atrocities forced on my people.

I actually could not care any less about what happened to my people 100 years ago. because I wasn't around then, I'm not some self-centered ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that believes, "Things that happened a century ago when I wasn't even born should make me prejudice to everyone around me, because I have a right to do it." Forgive and forget is my motto, I just wanted to show you a great counter argument while sounding like an average liberal, and I did a great job at it. It seems.

[Dendrobates Tinctorius]

Originally posted by TheDean:

Just hear me out with this one. When do we get to ban the good ol American flag for being linked to the massacre of my Native American brothers and sisters? ... What have you say for the Confederate flag, since it's so much more different from the American flag.

Probably when it's used by a country founded explicitly on racist genocidal aims, used in a war with the purpose of attaining those goals, then gets defeated and the country ceases to exist, but racist genocidaires continue to use it as a rallying cry for their racist ambitions.

If you're just referring to just not flying the flag on government property, that's not a ban: getting the government to stop endorsing the confederate battle flag or andrew jackson on money isn't affecting anyone. Getting the current flag of the US to not fly on US building isn't going to be so easy. The US exists, so either you'd have to remove the whole country or you'd have to get it to adopt a new flag.

If you're talking about some companies souring towards the flag: you'd have to make the case to them that people actually use it in a similar way to confederate flags. Good luck.