Harboring is such a dramatic way of framing this concept. Akin to me saying “I love only having people on N4G who want to argue pointlessly about consoles from an extremist point of view!”
Those people are consumers with images that aren’t against the ToS and are likely things most people don’t even know what they mean let alone any association with one group or another. But because Valve doesn’t know all these things, they’re harboring them?
And how would they address this in their Terms of Use? Would they keep a library of offensive imagery specific to certain groups but not others based on what the ADL says is right/wrong?
The fact of the matter is, a lot of people think this stuff is just jokes and a lot also actually believe in things like racial separation, religious rights over human rights, and the like. But addressing individuals on a gaming platform versus, oh, I dunno, a whole government aimed at such things seems myopic in concept.
If you want to solve the issues of this sort, start with better governing of rights aimed at supporting general human rights. There will always be people of these thoughts, but policing them from one source to another won’t stop them, only make them go to other sources.
I do accept that this is a way to inform Valve of something they may want to address, but it’s so heavy-handed towards them being purposefully set in allowing it rather than it just being something that exists on any major social environment online.
