Following his trial for defamation of the families of the children and school staff killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is using Valve Corp.’s Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, to sell an Infowars-themed video game. Jones claims to have earned hundreds of thousands in revenue from the video game, yet he has refused to pay the Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones: NWO Wars also mirrors and cartoonishly repackages the conspiracy theorist’s regularly violent, hateful rhetoric despite the platform’s policies against hate speech.
This article invests a lot of effort trying to make it look like it’s all Steam’s responsibility.
It IS their store.
Which makes them responsible for enforcing that he pays to the families?
It makes them responsible for giving a platform to a libelous hatemonger.
No, but still, its a private business, they could have refuse to publish this dirtbag’s game. But yeah it’s capitalist world so as long as it makes money its ok.