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Valve Will Stop Removing Controversial Games on Steam Unless They Are 'Illegal or Straight up Trolling' (geekwire.com)
Valve will no longer remove games from its Steam game marketplace unless they are "illegal, or straight up trolling," according to a statement from the Bellevue, Wash.-based gaming company posted today. From a report: The announcement comes a week after Valve removed a controversial game that simulated school shootings, following a nationwide outcry to ban the title. Last month it also issued warnings to developers about adult content in games. In its blog post, Valve executive Erik Johnson writes that "Valve shouldn't be the ones deciding this." "If you're a player, we shouldn't be choosing for you what content you can or can't buy," it reads. "If you're a developer, we shouldn't be choosing what content you're allowed to create. Those choices should be yours to make. Our role should be to provide systems and tools to support your efforts to make these choices for yourself, and to help you do it in a way that makes you feel comfortable."
You're refreshingly open-minded. 95% of people post here seem to believe on of two things;
1. Everything any Democrat politician ever says is stupid, and anything a Republican politician ever says is automatically right.
or
2. Everything any Democrat politician ever says is stupid, and anything a Republican politician ever says is automatically right.
The idea that perhaps people on BOTH sides of the political spectrum sometimes make a good point, or have a good idea, is rare, and refreshing.
It's fun to quote Clinton to people, get their (normally extreme) reaction, then say "oops, that was Trump who said that, not Clinton. My mistake." The cognitive dissonance is visible on their face as they realize just a moment ago they were cheering the policy (because they thought it was Clinton's), then they are horrified to realize the policy they loved a minute ago is actually a Trump policy. Or vice-versa, it works both ways.
Particularly on guns the idea of basing your opinion of a proposal on who made the proposal is extra silly, because 90% of gun owners are Republicans. It's a topic on which Democrats *literally* don't know what they're talking about, don't know the basic vocabulary. There's nothing wrong with not being interested in that hobby, of course. Republicans don't know anything about 1960s culture. Since they don't know what a semiautomatic is, they go around saying utterly ridiculous made-up things like "assault weapon", which sounds like "a series of tubes" to those of us who know the vocabulary.
Anyway, your post was refreshing. Looking at ideas from lots of different people and considering if they make sense is a good idea. I happen to disagree with you on several points, and I think the numbers indicate some of those ideas would not be at all effective. Some of the things you said make it clear that you aren't someone who has an interest in guns - they don't actually make sense if you know a bit about guns, but I applaud your open mind.