Rape Day puts Steam’s minimal moderation in the spotlight again

Valve’s lasseiz-faire attitude towards moderation has earned Steam a place in the headlines once again, thanks to the listing of upcoming game Rape Day. First covered by Polygon’s Patricia Hernandez, the less said about the game itself, the better – it’s a pointlessly edgy visual novel filled with awkward, too-shiny 3D character models. Its very place on the store highlights that people are going to keep pushing at boundaries until something breaks. It’s a concern that I brought up last year, as developers were still trying to figure out what Valve would allow – the answer, since then, has been ‘nearly anything’.

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