{"id":465,"date":"2021-03-25T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T04:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2021-05-05T06:02:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T06:02:28","slug":"podcast-4-to-ban-or-not-to-ban-steams-censorship-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Episode 4 &#8211; To ban or not to ban: Steam\u2019s Censorship policies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>[Release Date: Apr. 13, 2021]<\/strong> Until 2018 Steam had a fairly conventional policy that among other things banned content that included hate speech, pornography, the exploitation of children, libel, offensive content, or content intended to shock or disgust viewers.&nbsp; Then, after vigorous internal debate, they dramatically changed that policy.&nbsp; In doing so, they saw themselves as struggling with a very difficult problem.&nbsp; The issue of what to ban or censor today is one faced by lots of other organizations, including every gaming platform.&nbsp; What can we learn from Steam\u2019s conscious attempt to figure out where to draw the line?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed-podcast\/episode\/35g04TStoxsn2aUUMC84SY\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Release Date: Apr. 13, 2021] Until 2018 Steam had a fairly conventional policy that among other things banned content that included hate speech, pornography, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,34,29,32,33],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-podcast","tag-active-shooter","tag-banned","tag-censorship","tag-steam","tag-valve"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BANNED.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}