“Pornography with Nazi propaganda”. The Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation proposed taking control of Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and Origin

The head of the Civic Chamber working group believes that the “landing law” should apply to these platforms

Steam, PlayStation, Origin, and Xbox stores should receive the status of audiovisual services and fall under the “landing law”. In any case, that is what the head of the working group of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation for the protection of Internet user rights, Alexander Malkevich, believes.

“It is completely obvious that online gaming services Steam, Origin, PlayStation, and Xbox need to be endowed with the rights and obligations of audiovisual services, because they distribute content to a very large number of users. How do they differ from, say, Netflix? Such services show movies and TV series, and gaming platforms also distribute audio and video information.”

Mr. Malkevich was prompted into active contemplation and reasoning by an appeal from a woman who caught her 12-year-old son playing a “frankly obscene computer game.”

“Judging by the description, this is a shooter with an alternate history plot mixed with blatant pornography. The subscriber’s indignation knew no bounds; she asked to look into the situation,” recalls Malkevich.

According to Malkevich, purchasing this game “does not require age verification,” and it constitutes “Nazi propaganda and has an obvious pornographic nature.”

According to the “landing law,” foreign companies operating services with a daily audience of over 500,000 people must open representative offices in the Russian Federation.