Valve Removes Over 100 Steam Tributes To Suspected New Zealand Shooter
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The gaming platform Steam has cracked down on over 100 profiles memorializing
the suspected shooter behind today’s tragic mosque shooting in New Zealand,
which claimed the lives of 49 people.
Until shortly before this article’s publication, dozens of users of the PC
gaming service were blatantly offering tribute to the alleged writer behind a
white supremacist manifesto that takes responsibility for the New Zealand
shooting. These profiles tended to appropriate the suspected killer’s name
and image, the most common of which appears to be a screenshot from a
Facebook livestream of the shooting. One profile displays a GIF of the attack
while others offer praise for his actions or refer to him as “Kebab Remover”
or a “saint” or “hero.”
Early this morning, 66 profiles claimed the alleged shooter’s name, and in
just three hours, that number inflated to over 100. Hours after Kotaku
reached out to Steam for comment, however, the alleged shooter’s name
disappeared from those profiles’ main pages, but still remains under a list
of previous aliases. Still, new ones are appearing.
As of this article’s publication, there are just two users claiming or
emulating the name of the suspected killer on both Facebook and Twitter.
In addition to nearly 100 pages that referred to or venerated the suspected
New Zealand shooter, hundreds of pages continue to nod toward past mass
shooters including perpetrators of massacres in Charleston, Isla Vista and
Parkland and of the 2011 mass killing in Norway. These profiles also
appropriate these terrorists’ names and images, sometimes their mugshots or
press images from their trial. Many have been live for months or years. 45
profiles referencing the Charleston shooter’s name remain live, including
four created near the date of the 2015 attack.
“It’s very hard to speculate about why people do things on the internet.
Internet culture tends to be steeped in irony and satire,” said Alice
Marwick, an assistant professor of communications at UNC Chapel Hill, where
she studies extremist content on social media. “With that being said, a lot
of the time this kind of irony and satire does cloak genuine hatred. . . I
think when people take on the mantle of these people, yes, they could be
ironic or edgelords, but even if you’re not emulating their actions, you’re
emulating their belief system.”
For years, hate groups fostering Nazis and white supremacists have thrived on
Steam, VICE Motherboard reported in 2017. Just one year later, The Center for
Investigative Reporting revealed that Steam acted as home for 173 groups “
that blatantly venerate past school shooters,” including some described as “
A group for all my fellow shooters” and “School Shooters are Heroes.”
Valve, the company behind Steam, has traditionally taken a hands-off approach
toward moderating the content of games, groups and users’ pages that their
platform hosts, which is what makes today’s moderation effort noteworthy.
Yet Kotaku reported late 2018 that Steam was quietly removing some of the
hate groups hosted on it. “Various parts of the Steam Community are
moderated by a combination of official Valve staff, community moderators, and
representatives of the game developers and publishers,” Steam’s moderation
document reads. As of earlier this year, Steam hosted 90 million monthly users
—a behemoth moderation task.
Public veneration for mass shooters contributes to the misguided and deeply
demented “hero” narrative that helps spawn them, be it ironic or sincere.
Additional reporting contributed by Dhruv Mehrotra.
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简单来说，Steam上出现了不少对新西兰枪手致敬的文章内容。
还有尊称他为 卡巴清除者 (Kebab Remover) 、圣徒或英雄。
除此之外还有致敬过去大屠杀枪手的文章也出现了。
其实Steam做为一个有9000万用户的社区，过去早就有纳粹和白人至上主义社群在上面发
展，而且数量不少。
而Valve以往其实不会过度干涉玩家行为。
但在2018年末时Valve就开始针对这些仇恨团体进行审查了，看来Steam很难再保持原本的
不干涉做法了。

原PO要不要先去翻一翻steam的用户规定 少在这里带风向了

笑死 仇恨言论本来就没有言论自由

楼上，这个ID的发文风格就是这样啊。就把话题弄得很耸动...

不干涉保持中立是新闻原本的写法呀 = =然后2018年开始审查也是新闻写的呀我只是大概照意思译一下而已

我刚是回一楼。就以往发文来看，似乎这位原PO有当苹果这一类八卦杂志主编的志向吧？

而且我译的内容很中性吧...我没偏向任何一方呀这样就叫耸动哦 XD还是没仇视仇恨团体就叫耸动就叫带风向

卡巴不是应该反成沙威玛?XD

译成沙威玛就没暗指中东人的贬义了吧?

文内哪里用到中立字眼？顶多就是过去采取消极管理社群

就写过去不干涉呀

这篇还特别在其他版也发，看来是很想引人关注的朋友呀

新警察哦 = = Steam相关的文我都是发C洽转Steam的

hands-off approach只是不干预而已 不干预不一定表示中立

也是 不干涉的确不能等于中立 那我改一下好了

多读点书吧

各位早安不吵架

移除这些问题发言是好事啊

沙威玛就是一种贬意了啊 还是说故意翻卡巴有什么特殊含义？

沙威玛也有贬义吗? kebab会有贬义记得是某影片红了后的梗

喔喔原来REMOVE KEBAB是一个梗

是呀 就是暗指中东人 那是很有攻击性的梗

但查了原由是因为那些中东移民都在卖沙威玛 所以用这当谑称进而创出那首歌 我查了一下似乎是这样？就好像称韩国人是泡菜那样

这种仇恨性的东西一般人不知道很正常呀我也是看了这新闻去查才知道的

我的意思是 你有近一步去查出这仇恨梗是怎么来的吗..

就是那个影片呀 那首歌

...好吧你还是没看懂我的意思(倒)那首歌为何会称他们kebab

移除这些言论是必要的，极端主义不值得鼓励

因为kebab是土耳其的食物 那是和他们关联最大的

是啊 所以你就翻成烤肉/沙威玛移除者就能翻出那贬意了 而不是创一个听不太懂啥意思的卡巴移除者

卡巴 kebab 沙威玛 shawarma

不过无所谓了 跟你一样同为译者的一点碎念而已..

仇恨言论很正常

喔

仇恨言论正常？

Kebab要说也是伊朗吧，这个字的语源可是波斯语呢XD

kabob吧....

Kebab不是吃的吗

当然要干涉，玩游戏玩到杀人，难保你我就是下个对象

翻个新闻 还要被说带风向游戏族群管不得喔 比有些女性主义者还敏感等闹出人命了 联合国团体再拿这些文章连结电玩跟暴力的关系 要等那时候再删吗？

Kebab 是土耳其烤肉是中东非常流行的食物，衍生意就是用来蔑称中东人就像黄种人一率都都被叫 rice farmer 一样

歧视字眼也能说很正常?这已经不是敏不敏感问题了

2

极端仇恨言论还是要管管的 跟习包子维尼这种还是有差的

这样台湾要叫什么啊，小吃名字有够多的

这ID不ey

噗哧 ptt这里可多的是没被管的极端仇恨言论

推疯法 本来言论自由就是不管内容才叫言论自由管仇恨言论是为了其他层面考量 才不是什么仇恨言论本来就没有言论自由这种自助餐式双重标准

各国宪法里所规范的言论自由本来就不包含仇恨跟歧视了最好言论自由可以无限上纲啦，不然干嘛还要人身攻击的被吉上法院? 反正都言论自由麻

完全的自由不叫自由

仇恨言论在美国也受到言论自由保障喔

哪条世界线的的言论自由是不管内容的？？

美国的言论自由跟欧洲的不一样，欧洲才会禁仇恨言论

翻开各国现行刑法...（以下略）

例如新纳粹在欧洲某些国家是被禁的，但在美国是可以上街游行的。言论自由的界线不同理论有不同说法，美国是最宽松的。

笑死...言论自由不管内容,多读书好吗

楼上真的该多读一点事实上就是当一但开始管言论 就是迈向专制欧洲现在已经连拒绝订制蛋糕都算歧视了

屁话一堆,事实上就是有在管

仇恨评论本来就不行呀！ 哪来自由？

去google言论自由例外好吗

哀 主流说什么就信什么 多看点东西再来评论吧当你有一套机制可以审查言论 那为政者就可以用来做任何事

所以我说我要杀你全家,也该受到言论自由保障?别在那无病呻吟好吗

阿所以你现在要进监狱了吗等你因为这句话被抓走我们再来讲

那只是我在举例,不是真的恐吓你真的受到恐吓威胁,本来就该报警也不要一直扯报警啦,你就直接了当一点你是不是认为 "杀你全家" 这种也叫言论自由你如果觉得这种也叫言论自由,那我也懒的鸟你了你已经跟现实脱节了

我就问一下之前那个在网络上对水濑希放死亡威胁的事件啊那事件有没有言论自由?水濑祈*

基本上多数国家,恐吓都不在言论自由保障

我希望BoXeX来回答

只是判定标准比较松而已,不会网络随便骂一句就变恐吓

看来真的是无病呻吟

事情太大条 自己先动手 省得别人来干预我说真的 这种杀人魔的意志力和行动力 也非一无是处但是做了天理不容的事 公开就算不跟着骂也最好闭嘴

删除这种言论我觉得合理

言论自由是不删除仇恨言论，但是会依法逮捕而已。像某位之前扬言扫射校园的。用删除禁言的方式只是假装看不到，并没有办法解决问题。甚至你堵住一堆人讲干话的窗口，连找到预告犯罪的机会都没有。

可是..."不合板旨""不合格式"都能是删除文章的理由耶"在某个讨论区里删你文"是不抵触言论自由的不然在PTT被删文被水桶被全站禁言都可以告站方啦XD

你说的水桶就是"依法执行"的例子，那些污辱特定族群的推文会在水桶公告附注什么ID讲了什么话，大家自有公评而不合格式只是看当事人愿不愿意修改或重发，不合板旨则是走错板，两者都是可修正的多半也没罚则。

所以就是管理人移除文章啊，这种事本来就不抵触言论自由"我的文章在讨论区被删了是侵害言论自由"这种事不会成立