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Following his trial for defamation of the families of the children and school staff killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is using Valve Corp.’s Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, to sell an Infowars-themed video game. Jones claims to have earned hundreds of thousands in revenue from the video game, yet he has refused to pay the Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones: NWO Wars also mirrors and cartoonishly repackages the conspiracy theorist’s regularly violent, hateful rhetoric despite the platform’s policies against hate speech.

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[-] GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.website 29 points 11 months ago

Anyone know if it would it be worth reporting this as Defamatory on Steam? There are options for Legal Violation, Harmful, Fraud, Defamatory...without having played it it's hard to throw it in any of those specific categories, because they mostly have to do with the software itself, though Defamation might work since I'd be surprised if the content doesn't contain defamatory statements (even if they're wrapped in attempted irony for legal wiggle room).

[-] makyo@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

I flagged it as harmful because it isn't directly related to the defamation case. But I'm sure either gets your point across, and if Valve gets enough complaints maybe they'll actually realize they don't need a man criminally liable for misusing media, to benefit spreading media on their platform.

[-] stratosfear@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 11 months ago

I flagged it as Child Exploitation for the simple fact one of the screenshots says Epstein Island...

[-] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 4 points 11 months ago

Followed suit. Cheers.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago
[-] BobGnarley@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago

It isnt though wasting a companies resources for false child exploitation accusations ties up those limited resources to investigate actual child endangerment.

[-] BobGnarley@lemm.ee -2 points 11 months ago

Dont forget to report Google too they have the gall to host this on their servers!1!1 man I bet if any realtor tries to list it for sale we can get them too!! We should never see anything about it existing ever again so people forget about it! /S if it isnt painfully obvious.

https://www.google.com/search?q=epstein+island&sca_esv=f9536568f210c1d3&tbm=isch&sxsrf=ACQVn0-aA8RhIzXcA050geQDDBsEsCV0CQ:1705935097775&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk3Yy8n_GDAxXYmbAFHVn4C74Q_AUIBigB&biw=226&bih=489#imgrc=AiYobCbnzJPBPM

[-] BobGnarley@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

Shit, better report me too! I shared a picture of Epstein Island from google search!!

[-] stratosfear@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 11 months ago

I'd report you just for not removing everything after the ? in your dumb link

[-] BobGnarley@lemm.ee -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Please do explain how showing a picture of Epstein Island is child exploitation. I would love to have that make sense. If there was a daycare that hurt children and I had a picture of the outside of the daycare how in the fuck is that Child exploitation? Its a game about conspiracy theories and political events. That dude who ran that island mysteriously died with no cameras on him and some new guards that were asleep. A lot of people know he did not kill himself so that being unprovable makes it a conspiracy theory which is no surprise it would make it to a game about conspiracy theories. Fuck Alex Jones but also fuck a bunch of dumbasses wasting Valves time and reasources reporting shit that isnt happening. God you people are STUPID I dont understand how people can be so out of touch with the reality around them. Also harmful reportings? Go take a look at the top games on steam especially the Hentai ones where the thousand year old characters look like children THATS child exploitation but showing a picture of espstein island is not child exploitation. You can google pictures of Epstein Island right now, pages upon pages should I report Google for child exploitation? Common sense is dead

[-] stratosfear@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

M O N E T I Z A T I O N

(And yes Japanese anime pedo culture is gross too but that's just a red herring regarding this)

Also, "wasting valves time" gtfo... They made a billion dollars off skins in loot crates, they have plenty of fucking "time."

this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2024
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