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>making it easy to flag propaganda in apps and then blocking it as she describes is in fact building in a type of censorship. Devotion, a small Taiwanese horro
by f00_ 7y ago
>making it easy to flag propaganda in apps and then blocking it as she describes is in fact building in a type of censorship.
Devotion, a small Taiwanese horror game, is an example of people abusing these types of control on steam
>Devotion, which came under fire over the weekend because of the presence of a piece of art that appears to mock Chinese president Xi Jinping. That quickly led to a massive review-bombing campaign (that has now bled over into Devotion's predecessor, Detention)
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18239937/taiwanese-horror-game-devotion-gone-steam-removed-winnie-the-pooh-meme-china https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18239937/taiwanese-horror...
https://www.pcgamer.com/taiwanese-horror-game-devotion-has-been-removed-from-steam/ https://www.pcgamer.com/taiwanese-horror-game-devotion-has-b...
- Zak 7y agoAnything that's crowdsourced and likely to be manipulated needs to have a plan for handling coordinated inauthentic activity. I imagine Steam's existing measures are designed more around preventing game developers from using fake positive reviews to promote their games rather than fake negative reviews as a form of censorship.
- mrguyorama 7y agoI wouldn't be so quick to imagine that. Especially recently, Steam has seen many legitimate, organic negative review bombs. The truth is likely closer to the fact that Valve is known to just not really care about the quality of their storefront