{"id":878861,"date":"2024-11-20T10:58:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T05:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=878861"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T05:28:48","slug":"us-senator-in-open-letter-to-the-worlds-largest-gaming-platform-your-platform-is-full-of-hate-and-dangerous-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/20\/us-senator-in-open-letter-to-the-worlds-largest-gaming-platform-your-platform-is-full-of-hate-and-dangerous-content\/","title":{"rendered":"US senator in open letter to the world\u2019s largest gaming platform: Your platform is full of hate and dangerous content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US senator Mark Warner has called upon Valve CEO Gabe Newell to take action against extremist content on the Steam gaming platform. In a letter to Newell, Warner cited a report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that identified a significant number of user accounts and groups promoting hateful ideologies on the world&#8217;s largest digital distribution platform for PC games. The ADL report found over 40,000 groups on Steam with names that included hateful terms like &#8220;1488,&#8221; &#8220;shekel,&#8221; and &#8220;white power.&#8221; Warner emphasised that this content violates Steam&#8217;s online conduct policy, which prohibits promoting real-world violence and posting inappropriate content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US senator Mark Warner has called upon Valve CEO Gabe Newell to take action against extremist content on the Steam gaming platform. In a letter to Newell, Warner cited a report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that identified a significant number of user accounts and groups promoting hateful ideologies on the world&#8217;s largest digital distribution platform for PC games. The ADL report found over 40,000 groups on Steam with names that included hateful terms like &#8220;1488,&#8221; &#8220;shekel,&#8221; and &#8220;white power.&#8221; Warner emphasised that this content violates Steam&#8217;s online conduct policy, which prohibits promoting real-world violence and posting inappropriate content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}