Content Moderation Case Study: Valve Takes A Hands Off Approach To Porn Via Steam (2018)
Fri, Feb 12th 2021 3:33pm — Copia Institute Summary: Different platforms have different rules regarding “adult” content, but they often prove difficult to enforce. Even the US judicial system has declared that there is no easy way to define pornography, leading to Justice Potter Stewart’s famous line, “I know it when I see it.” Many, if not most, internet websites have rules regarding such adult content, and in 2017 Valve’s online game platform, Steam, started trying to get more serious about enforcing its rules, leading to some smaller independent games being banned from the pl...