Turkish government proposes legislation that would throttle Steam and other gaming platforms into unusability if they don't comply with demands for company data and content removal
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Companies that fail to deliver their information within five days would face escalating fines and up to 90% bandwidth restriction.

Hey everyone.

Government of Türkiye is pushing a new regulation that would force Steam, Epic, PlayStation etc. to appoint local representatives. If they refuse? The whole platform gets banned.

They also want full access to user data and the power to arbitrarily ban “risky” content. This isn’t just a Turkish thing, governments everywhere are trying to pull this crap. They think blocking platforms will control us? All they are doing is driving people straight to VPNs and piracy. If you make it impossible to buy games legally, we’ll just sail the high seas for free.

Thanks for the boost, I guess.

  • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    The steam deck touchpad thing is because it needs the steam input drivers and software.

    Realistically if valve decoupled the steam input driver and software from the steam client then you could use it with out the client.

    But that’s like bitching you can’t use a video card with out a driver… It’s kind of a well duh

    Even then so long as there’s some level of touchpad support you should still have basically functionality so long as there detected which the deck has.