On June 6th, a game called Active Shooter was set to be released on Steam.

For those that aren't familiar, Steam is an app store for PC games.

Now, this game Active Shooter would allow you to play as a school shooter or as a SWAT

team member responding to a school shooting.

Naturally, a ton of people got pissed off, this at the game was offensive, the game's

insensitive, and it shouldn't be allowed to be sold.

So Steam ultimately complied and took the game down, or I should say they never allowed

the game to launch in the first place.

The following this made an announcement as to what games they were going to allow on

their platform, and it would seem that they're taking a rather libertarian approach.

So long as the content is legal and isn't obvious trolling, they're going to allow

it.

Now, a lot of people are surprised, because this is kind of the opposite approach most

platforms take when it comes to community guidelines and things like hate speech,

you know, Twitter, YouTube, they'll just ban you and take you down, whether it's legal

content or not.

So is Steam actually resisting censorship?

And if so, what is their motivation for allowing almost any content on their platform?

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