Itch.io games site taken down - eviltoast

Bluesky Post (this was also posted on twitter)

I was hoping to find a statement from the aggressor, but it seems to be too early.

  • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldEnglish
    172·
    15 days ago

    So unless you go looking at the user profile pages of white supremacists, or go searching for white supremacist user groups you won’t run into much of it.

    Yeah, that is my point. How can people be radicalized by something they don’t see?

    Also, as non American, I find it mental that pepe memes are considered hate symbols now.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      53·
      15 days ago

      If you have Nazis in the place they just wait until they see someone expressing opinions that’s bordering on their side of the political fence and they initiate contact to try and comfort them in their thoughts.

      How to radicalize a normie: https://youtu.be/P55t6eryY3g

      • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldEnglish
        73·
        15 days ago

        So, any platform that offers unmoderated DMs should be banned? Or how exactly do you want to solve extremists reaching out in private?

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          43·
          15 days ago

          Who said anything about DMs? Make extremists feel unwelcome (contrary to what’s going on on Steam’s forums) and they’ll leave, you don’t need to scan DMs, you just need to delete extremist content instead of leaving it up like is happening now.

          • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldEnglish
            62·
            15 days ago

            Wait, so your point is that we don’t need to moderate DMs (and by proxy other spaces that users don’t see), just make them feel unwelcome in the public ones.

            And earlier in the thread, when I ask where the extremist content is, I and Schadrach agreed it is mostly places people don’t see. Which you didn’t object to.

            So isn’t it job well done, Steam is as is should be? Or what is the issue here?

            • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              1·
              15 days ago

              The implication is that someone is going to come off as a likely mark and for example get invited into a private user group with people “joking” with things like the Happy Merchant or being ridiculously over the top in a way that’s hard to take seriously to ease people in to taking white supremacist ideas seriously.

              Ever seen the South Park episode about the Passion of the Christ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Jew)? The idea is basically that that is constantly happening online anywhere it’s not sufficiently prevented.

              • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                14 days ago

                Ok, cool. How should Steam prevent it?

                Edit: Or more relevantly, how is having unmoderated usually unseen public spaces worse for this than having unmoderated private spaces? Is the issue only that steam does not hide what is happening unlike other websites?