Valve sparks outrage by removing the LGBTQ+ inclusive game Flick Solitaire from Steam in Russia, bowing to Kremlin censorship demands while Apple and Google refuse.
It’s not as simple as about backbone. I agree that ethics are a good reason to stop doing business with an individual but if a company like Valve were to pull out of every country based on ethical matters, they’d need to found their own country.
Not every country has decent civic rights. Yet Steam doesn’t operate in only 4 and these are the ones US has issued a ban to trade with.
And as we are on topic of pulling out of operating in Russia, many western companies did so, yet since initial “withdrawal” in 2022 some had reinstated their businesses. And noone is taking about it. 🤷
Steam is one service Russians can’t easily replace. If their backwards policies prevent it from operating there, maybe they would take steps to change them.
I agree with folks that they should just pull out of the country and tell customers its because of their countries laws preventing them from doing business there.
I mean, if you want to operate in a country, you follow their laws when in the country?
How about having some fucking backbone?
That’s how to cease operating in a country.
Valve should cease operating in Russia.
Also, Valve with every other company should already have been ordered to stop operating in Russia by their respective countries.
I don’t disagree.
That just fucks over gamers, not the Russian government.
An angry enough people overthrows their government. Depriving the people will get them closer to that
That’s literally was Israel says about Gaza
The tactic isn’t wrong in that caae, it’s how it’s being used
So?
It’s not as simple as about backbone. I agree that ethics are a good reason to stop doing business with an individual but if a company like Valve were to pull out of every country based on ethical matters, they’d need to found their own country.
Not every country wants people like me dead.
Not every country has decent civic rights. Yet Steam doesn’t operate in only 4 and these are the ones US has issued a ban to trade with.
And as we are on topic of pulling out of operating in Russia, many western companies did so, yet since initial “withdrawal” in 2022 some had reinstated their businesses. And noone is taking about it. 🤷
We should absolutely talk about it
Would that really be a bad thing?
Steam is one service Russians can’t easily replace. If their backwards policies prevent it from operating there, maybe they would take steps to change them.
If they don’t like it, they can leave Russia.
Generally yes, but legality is not ethics.
Where do you draw that line?
I agree with folks that they should just pull out of the country and tell customers its because of their countries laws preventing them from doing business there.