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Valve follows the laws on how they handle that content. All these 'studies' and call-outs are just platforming for political campaigns and to attempt to push stricter speech laws that give the government more control.
Well some of it is also research into potential future legislation or even just them researching possible ideas to then draft a bill later to try to get it to pass.
AFAIK, this is not legal when involving US Citizens.
And, I'm just going with your analogy, here, not the actual description. If there was a filter than could do a "Please show me all Steam Posters who are breaking Federal Law" I imagine an Agent's workload would be reduced pretty dramatically...
But, if you're not a US Citizen, then things get different pretty fast.
Just like when my UK MI6 Officer tsk-tsks my posts in Off-Topic when I get a bit too... forceful. Sorry, Dave, go have a cuppa, innit? (Did I say that right?)
IOW - If "They" can watch you, They are.
Hell, they literally stopped archiving tweets in the Library of Congress because it became too much. If one website was too much information, imagine trying to scrape and store data from the possible millions.
That just on websites, not game chats, private chats, or clients like Steam or Discord.
"The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is the principal oversight "committee of the United States Senate. As a member of the Committee, and chair of the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight, Senator Hassan works to oversee the Department of Homeland Security and other critical homeland security priorities to keep America safe and secure – including cybersecurity and drug interdiction efforts".
https://www.hassan.senate.gov/about/committee-assignments
"Sen. Hassan is a senior member of the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee and chairs the Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight subcommittee. Her letter asked Valve four questions and gave the company a deadline of January 15, 2023 to respond.
She asked if the imagery violated Steam’s terms of service, what process Valve uses to moderate its forums and user generated content for “extremist, racist, antisemitic, gender-based harassment, homophobic” content, the process by which Valve responds to user complaints about said content, and if the company had a safety team that proactively monitored such activity".
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy79na/senator-asks-gabe-newell-why-steam-hosts-so-much-neo-nazi-content
And so she was a senior member of the Committee, and even gave Mr Newell a deadline to respond.
And so that's just founded fact.
Yes, Valve is following the Law as well as acting on good Ethical behavior - It would not be good of them to facilitate illegal activity, especially when this platform has many underage users. Taking such precautions is good "Due Diligence." Valve is private company storefront, not a communications company.
For the rest, which I assume you were addressing link material that I haven looked at, I just see it as internet-static and posturing/sensationalism. The underlying facts are pretty clear -
I see no First Amendment enforcement requirement at all for private companies, no matter if they are "popular" or not. No private company should be required to publicly host material or messaging that it does not agree with. No private company should be required to take on the expenses and make the support requirements necessary for that material to be disseminated.
The important thing here is that this boundary between Government and Private Industry must be maintained. "Nationalizing" private industry is the first step towards tyranny... While "regulations" can be very beneficial, there's a big problem with requiring private commercial interests to act to enforce this type of First Amendment imperative.
As far as the collection of private data is concerned, I am firmly against Government agencies blanket/bulk-purchasing commercial data of consumers/users. This sort of enforcement/intel loophole to get around Federal Law needs to be addressed. It means, in effect, all agencies can just buy marketing database/private info of large groups of people for whatever purpose they wish, without appropriate oversight in how such purchases are targeted or eventually used. Because a commercial company gathered and is selling that data and not the agency in question, it's seen as not a breach of any Right.
(And, I think Privacy is the biggest unaddressed concern involving the internet, these days, not what a bunch of propeller-head tinfoil-hat wearers want to say... :)
What is a founded fact is that response to the letter was optional, and as you were already shown Valve completely ignored the questions on extremism as did many others.
What is also fact is the letter did not involve the committee at all which is why it is signed by her, not the committee, and the letterhead and the letter makes no mention of the committee as they are not involved in it.
It was her own personal interest, which she has completely abandoned and made no reference of in over a year.
If she was speaking on behalf the committee the letter would make mention of the committee and he role.
Instead it was signed
Margaret Wood Hassan
United States Senator
As it was personal, and not related to any of the committee's she was involved in. So trying to claim it came from the committee is once again very sloppy police work and factually wrong.
You forget we can easily see the letter with our own eyes and see the committee wasn't involved. It doesn't matter how many times you try to mis-state the facts, we are able to see the actual letter and facts ourselves.
"Extremist ideology in the gaming community is not new, and Steam’s groups specifically have long had a problem with celebrations of white nationalism, Nazis, and even school shooters.
School shooter William Edward Atchison posted racist messages on Steam for years before killing two people and then himself in 2017. Steam also once hosted a community named after the accelerationist Atomwaffen Division that linked back to the group’s websites and videos".
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy79na/senator-asks-gabe-newell-why-steam-hosts-so-much-neo-nazi-content
And so, we know Moderation, needs a lot of help. And perhaps, going after the discriminatory content and poster, instead of those actually "reporting" the content, may be a start.
Maybe moderators "reading" what is posted, and taken 'proactive" actions, instead or reactive actions based soley on reports, mainly used as a "downvote" button, rather than it's true use, can help.
Maybe ignoring comments name calling others "poopie heads", and wasting time banning that, instead of the real serious matters.
Mr Newell and Valve have A LOT of work to do.
And given not just the letter by high ranking official of a committee, specifically tasked with these matters on a committee monitoring these chat spaces, but now even the FBI as recent as just a couple of weeks ago, asked to be more proactive on these spaces, hopefully will have Mr Newell, wake up from his slumber, and change things, or they will change him, at least in a more regulative approach..
In addition, we as posters have to know, what 'extremism" actually is. Is extremism what the Senator says it is? Or are personal political views deemed "extremists"?
Posters will not know, until Valve may need to change its terms.
Uh...
1.5 Billion monies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
The last estimate I heard was that this one center is at least capable of storing managing and providing one year's worth of all data produced by everything-internet, everywhere.
So, get together 1.5 billion monies and then whatever ongoing costs you need to cover and start building. (Pretty cheap, actually, IMO. I think that cost estimate is suspicious.)
She did not send it as a committee member nor did the committee send it. She sent it as a Senator(which actually means something).
That's just a founded fact.
per your own article
The SENATOR sent the latter, not the committee. There is a big difference. Again I suggest you actually read the letter itself which you can find a copy of here - https://www.hassan.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/senators_hassan_calls_on_largest_gaming_company_to_address_online_extremism.pdf
There is no mention of committee as it was not part of their business. Her being on he committee doesn't mean the letter was backed by the committee. They sit on numerous committee's.
Constanty claiming that the committee sent the letter when in fact the senator sent it instead is very sloppy police work and shows a bad faith efford to try to twist the circumstances to fit a false narrative you keep pushing.
The FBI isn't investigating any website about how they handle content. They are repeating the same thing they did in 2019 about wanting to have more access to the internal workings of moderation of the websites.
It didn't happen then(when it was claimed extremism was the highest it's been). It won't happen now. In fact, Valve just flat out ignored them as shown in the link shared showing the responses from various companies.
The facts were presented, in her position on the Committee. What the Committee is. What they investigate. What her studies have shown. The deadline for Mr Newell to respond. And some serious allegations posed to Mr Newell, about his platform.
Others like yourself can discern or post opinions about those facts.
The internet has grown quite a bit larger in 10 years. I'm willing to be money that even by the time that center was complete, it was already behind in storage capacity for it's purpose.