A complaint made to Australia’s Anti-Defamation Commission has detailed claims of abuse and anti-Semitism on the online gaming platform Steam.
Gamers are using anti-Semitic names like Jew Hunter and swastikas as their profile pictures on popular online video game Counter Strike: Global Offensive, according to a complaint made to Australia’s Anti-Defamation Commission.
The ADC alleges online video game platform Steam has no policy against hate speech and has left the deeply offensive profiles online.
Australian Jewish gamer Jacob – not his real name – said in a statement to The Australian that he lost family in the Holocaust and has been left emotionally distressed and angry after making a complaint to Steam’s parent company Valve, without receiving a response.
Jacob said he has encountered multiple Counter-Strike accounts using the name Jew Hunter and The Jew Hunter, and has reported them all – but to no avail.
“As someone who lost family in the Holocaust, I am shocked that Valve has nothing in place on Steam to filter out these names,” he said.
“Even when I submitted a support inquiry, all I got was a generic copy and paste response with the profile I reported; yet still it has not been taken down more than a week after the incident.”
Read the article by David Swan in The Advertiser.