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Saturnalia creators Santa Ragione will "wind down operations" after Valve ban horror game Horses from Steam (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

From my perspective, this is another reason it’s a bad idea to have an American company (even a somewhat user-focused one like Valve) be a steward of modern digital services. Local culture puts too much emphasis on the theatrical elements of morality.

Yeah, I hear you. It should be based in a sane country like Australia or the United Kingdom or China or Japan.

Point is, making this an 'America bad' problem is just ignoring that it could be so much worse if it was based elsewhere.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

The issue is the power, not who wields it.

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

The problem is "based anywhere": no party based on a single nation should have censorship control on the global market of a technology (high-end gaming on PC in this case). The problem is not "America bad", but the presence of America in control of many modern technologies (social network, AI, advertisement, media etc.) makes U.S. a recurring target for bigotry that mess with the overall market (this don't mean that U.S. have a global-wise issue with bigotry, things could be worse is so many key market were in the hands of any religious zealot country (being Muslim, Christian, Hebrew etc.).

We're are losing a world that was heading to technological decentralization (emails, websites, interconnected communities (such as forums, irc, bulletin boards), cryptocurrencies etc: this is going to screw with everyone, U.S. citizen themselves also.

[–] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

You're welcome to perceive what I am saying as a reflexive "America bad" outburst driven by current developments.

And I will take the liberty of saying that it is possible that there is significant nuance to my arguement.

Not to mention that I've lived for several years across multiple countries in North America, Europe and Asia and visited another 25 countries.

Btw, I am not only flexing with the "I have travelled the world!!!" comments. :)

I am also pointing out that it would be difficult for me to enjoy living/travelling in other countries if I reflexively said things like "This place sucks! What a shithole!".