Valve allowed the controversial troll game Black Lives Matter onto Steam. Within hours it had collected a large number of reviews mocking both the movement and the invalids who support the movement. Well, Valve didn’t take kindly to that and various users who left negative reviews mocking the very obvious propaganda found their accounts permanently banned from the community services.
One user who left a negative review found himself on the wrong end of a community perma-ban.
In an e-mail he explained…
“I wrote one of the reviews you featured (in the time the timer took to run down…) and got perma banned from steam yesterday. I can still play games but that is it, this hasn’t just affected the account I wrote the review on, but a 2nd account I had linked to the same phone number, as well as a throwaway steam account I haven’t accessed in a year.”
He provided screenshots of the ban as well, where Valve notified him that his account violated Steam’s terms of service agreement, so account functionality would be limited.
The account limitations included no longer being able to trade with other users, no longer being able to invite people to games, no longer being able to edit the user profile, upload content, comment, or interact with any of Steam’s community features.
Worse yet is that he was then banned from being able to purchase new games, gift, trade, or even buy or sell items on the marketplace. Even CD key activation had been deactivated, meaning he can no longer purchase games from Amazon or Humble Bundle and activate the keys on his account.
A similar thing happened to a Russian gamer, who was also permanently banned from using Steam’s community features, but the support staff took it one step further and permanently banned him from even being able to access his game library. He decided to take measures to contact the Russian consumer protection agencies and look into suing Valve for illegally preventing him from accessing products he paid for.
In the case of the Black Lives Matter ban, it was noted that other user reviews mocking the movement and the troll propaganda on Steam were also removed from the public’s view.
In the e-mail, the user who had been banned noted…
“I’ve reached out to steam support but haven’t recieved a reply yet, and on top of this it seems that most of the high rated reviews have had their accounts banned. “Game stole my bike guy” seems to have vanished along with all but one of the reviews you featured.”
It’s not just the reviews getting axed from the store page for Black Lives Matter, users are being widespread banned from participating in the forums as well, especially if they criticize Israel.
Additionally, threads stating “All Lives Matter” are quickly locked or outright deleted.
Guilty Spark’s thead that was posted on July 20th, 2020 was locked after 41 comments.
Another thread made by One-HiT KiLLeR on July 6th, 2020 was later locked on July 21st, 2020 shortly after the game went live.
Threads that pointed out that Black Lives Matter was a terrorist organization and that ActBlue – the company who processes the payments towards the Black Lives Matter organization – is a DNC PAC, were also locked.
Essentially, Valve’s response to the criticisms is to make the critics go away; to censor dissent and to squash any attempts to mock or ridicule BLM propaganda.
Permanently restricting accounts ensures that most people will never say anything publicly about the domestic terrorist group again. This kind of heavy-handed censorship is to going to be used to create a chilling effect, to stifle speech, and to allow terrorist to continue to rape and ravage the rights of Americans.
Expect Centrists™ to deflect and equivocate by claiming that the people bringing up politics were “violating Steam’s rules” all while ignoring the fact that Black Lives Matter on Steam is an openly admitted political statement by the developers.
Basically, developers are allowed to incite hate and division, but gamers can’t discuss the very thing that’s being used to incite hate and division.
The only upside in all of this is that the developer openly came out and admitted what the intentions were with Black Lives Matter. In a news post published on July 22nd, 2020, he wrote…
“What would our world look like if people actually cared? It’s a moot question; if there’s anything the civilizational failures of 2020 have proven, it’s that people don’t care. No one wants to entertain weird ideas like universal basic income or a looming pandemic; no one wants to make a genuine effort at improving their reasoning ability or becoming a more empathetic person; all they want to do is argue about the latest internet drama.
“I’m not an idiot; I knew exactly what would happen when I put this game on Steam. The reviews would get flooded, giving social justice advocates the perfect opportunity to signal how appalled they are by “racist gamers,” as if a few 4channers writing deliberately offensive comments is indicative of some sort of deep-seated cultural issue. Youtubers would make videos about how pandering this game is, journalists would write articles about how problematic the comments are, debates would rage on Twitter—and meanwhile, 3000 black children would continue to die of malaria every day, with no one caring.”
He rounds out his little Liberal spiel – after taking jabs at the woke cultists permeating the Regressive Left – by claiming that this is all part of a larger plan. He claims that he actually wants to make the world a better place (which is impossible, by the way), writing…
“This isn’t the first game I’ve released on Steam, but it is the fastest-selling; this little timer that took me five minutes to code blew up more than some of my multi-year projects. And I don’t intend on squirreling away the profits for my own consumption; this is only Step 1 in a very, very elaborate plan. There’s a lot of actual work to be done in this world, and those of us who have lived lucky lives have a responsibility to get started, as opposed to just virtue signalling about it.
“If you don’t trust a random developer on Steam with your money—which, at this point, I wouldn’t blame you for—and you want to make a real positive difference in the world, I’d encourage you to donate to the Against Malaria Foundation, which is typically thought to be the single most effective charity there is. If you really want to go above and beyond, read the 80,000 Hours Career Guide.”
He admits that he still agrees with 95% of what the Intersectional Inquisition puts forward, he just doesn’t like the way they go about it, which makes him a Liberal and both an enemy of the people and an enemy of America.
Nevertheless, Valve is still using this opportunity to censor voices opposed to the domestic terrorists known as Black Lives Matter, and that, too, makes them no less complicit in the ongoing deconstruction of Western values.
(Thanks for the news tip Camel)
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