ION: PureBlood ☦ (@Ionwhite)

Steam Permabans Russian User, Blocks His Library for “Extreme Racism” Spartacus June 10, 2020 It appears that Steam, the one hold-out in a universe of censorship, is beginning to crack. This comes after the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, an Israeli lobbying group, began making moves against them. This is a very sad day. One Angry Gamer: >> A Russian Steam user going by the handle lcompote found himself permanently banned from the Steam community and from accessing his game library after Valve dropped the hammer on him for “extreme racist spam”. Over the course of several years, dating back to 2017, lcompote (who brandished the Steam screen name of President Trump) made various comments and shared criticism about certain games without holding back how he felt. (cont/) << The Imgur album is here. https://tinyurl.com/y7tys52o Basically, he just called people cucks and faggots all the time, which in all fairness they probably were. The fact that this isn’t actually very extreme might mean that they’re coming for all of us, soon. Or maybe it really was spam? We shall have to wait for the truth of the matter to be uncovered. >> As you can see from the screenshots, lcompote was mostly reprimanded for replying to other users in threads about games he played, ranging from Ring of Elysium and Draugen to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dying Light: Bad Blood. His inclusion of profanity triggered the moderators something fierce. ... Steam support.. not only permanently banned him from the Steam community but also blocked him from logging into his account or accessing his game library back on February 28th, 2020. << And now whenever he tries to get into his account, he gets this error message: I like how right next to it they’re also telling him to make an account. Subtly, and probably unintentionally, salting the wound. >> This wasn’t a troll constantly spamming the Steam forums. This wasn’t a guy on a vendetta to badger or hound down developers. He simply said some things over the course of three years that the Steam support didn’t like.. He can no longer play any of the games purchased, nor log into his account to his stats or profile. He’s unable to even play in offline mode since he has to log into Steam to access offline mode, and they’ve banned him from logging in. << That’s gotta hurt! That’s also gotta be illegal, and the guy says he’s gonna sue Steam, which is a good thing. He might win, but it’s not clear for how much longer legal avenues will work. Stealing someone’s games is illegal, but more and more illegal things are becoming legal when there’s racism involved, so it’s a good idea to always have a backup plan for everything. (Cont/) https://tinyurl.com/y9zxgytn #DailyStomerNews