The alternative is to stop doing business in places where laws are being used to restrict the games available.

Incorrect. You are completely ignoring what those restrictions are.

Would that really be a bad thing?

Steam is one service Russians can’t easily replace. If their backwards policies prevent it from operating there, maybe they would take steps to change them.

I don’t really get what anyone expects Valve to do here other than comply with the law.

Lol.

💲💲💲

The alternative is to stop doing business with Russia.

They can be part of the problem, or part of the solution.

They chose the problem.

But, it would suck if I were in Russia and suddenly lost access to my games.

Another reason not to rely on steam as a central point of failure.

I love fitgirl.

Truly fighting the good fight.

.ml isn’t significantly worse than hexbear, beehaw, or blahaj.

All of them love censorship to support their narrative.

Thanks for the explanation.

Now I know to stick with lemmy.

It makes more sense to just use free streaming sites or save videos to a storage drive.

Plex, like framework, seemed like corporate shite that wannabe nerds fell for to fit in with other wannabes.

I always thought less of people whenever they mentioned plex.