Valve sparks outrage by removing the LGBTQ+ inclusive game Flick Solitaire from Steam in Russia, bowing to Kremlin censorship demands while Apple and Google refuse.
Do it’s not as simple as about backbone. I agree that ethics are a good reason to stop doing business with an individual but if a company like Valve were to pull out of every country based on ethical matters, they’d need to found their own country.
I mean, if you want to operate in a country, you follow their laws when in the country?
How about having some fucking backbone?
If they don’t like it, they can leave Russia.
That’s how to cease operating in a country.
Valve should cease operating in Russia.
I don’t disagree.
So?
Do it’s not as simple as about backbone. I agree that ethics are a good reason to stop doing business with an individual but if a company like Valve were to pull out of every country based on ethical matters, they’d need to found their own country.
Not every country wants people like me dead.
Generally yes, but legality is not ethics.
Where do you draw that line?
Start here?