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[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (4 children)

Just context for people since I had to look it up myself.

First bad apology.

Second bad apology.

Neither statement actually says Nazi or Faccism is wrong. Literally the one thing that would help them right now, and twice they failed to do it. The GoG forums are full of folks saying this has been a known problem for years that hate speech was not being moderated.

Sooooo, yeah. It's pretty disappointing. Not sending it to Germany (where it is illegal and punishable) but then okaying its use for rest of the world is a WILD explanation. Y'all get how that is worse than if it was some "some rogue intern" being a dipshut, but speaks to a company side problem.

I'm sure af not going to buy GoG anymore.

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 4 points 4 hours ago

It was sent to Germany, just not to users with their language set to German.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 2 points 6 hours ago

Yep, I send an email to support asking about it and they said they can't tell me more than the second apology and quoted it.

[–] Caducous@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They are literally apologizing? What kind of hill are you dying on?

[–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think people want to amplify this to justify staying on Steam. "Steam has DRM but at least they're not Nazis! So I'll take the moral approach and only use Steam." When in reality it's just a matter of convenience but portrayed as a moral decision.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 3 points 4 hours ago

I think so too, PR could have handled it better (ffs, just say "nazi bad" like 5 times to make it super clear), but it's not like a known nazi company did a nazi thing, nobody expected this, it was out of context, and they gained noting (I wouldn't say they thought they would gain anything by ad-targeting nazis ... in a newsletter to all, they did have an explanation for it, and they did stop the process midway).

It does seem like an operational risk from the marketing department.

I think that we should judge fascists/nazis, but use our heads to assess all counterparties - they don't have to do a nazi salute to be a nazi or support them, but if they make one then it better be accidental & with no (immediate or prior) context.