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I feel like news like this shouldn't even be reported on, it gives unnecessary exposure to the developer and game. They breached the ToS of Valve, they rightfully got a ban, let them sink into oblivion and not make a big story out of it. This will probably get them some extra sales on a different platform by people who support this type of messages.

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Also, the headline is misleading.

The issue wasn't the anti-trans rant; Valve specifically called out the fact that the patch notes included personal attacks.

For better or worse, Valve is intentionally very lax when it comes to censorship (they ban illegal content and trolling, and that's about it):

https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/6/17435324/valve-steam-policy...

For the heck of it, and to confirm nothing has changed, I looked and took me about 10 seconds to find some trans-phobic stuff they host.

Link to the anti-trans content and let's get it sorted then.

What do you mean “get it sorted”? It doesn’t violate policy, even though I disagree with it.

If it is transphobic, it is almost certainly against this: https://store.steampowered.com/online_conduct/

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