Yeah, so basically the current prevailing schizo internet theory is that AI nerds have destroyed the internet and created infinite spam.
The advertisement goons are now incapable of determining who is a bot and who is an actual human. The advertisement goons no longer want to pay as much to social media networks.
Social media networks, in full blown panic of losing potential revenue, decided to lobby governments saying "we gotta protect the kids! ID everyone to protect the kids from pedophiles!".
The social media networks know this doesn't really protect kids. But, it does two things (and a third accidentally).
1. They now can identify who is human and who is AI slop machine, or enough to appease the advertisement goons
2. Advertising to children is a general no-no from politicians, or something, so with ID verification they can say with confidence they're not advertising to children because it's been ID verification. Basically, they can weed out the children and focus on advertising to adults
3. The feds can now tell who is human and who is AI slop. This inadvertently helps them with tracking people and serving fresh daily dumps of propaganda, or whatever they want to do.
It's a win-win-win for advertisers, social media networks, the government, and any business which does data collections.
It fucks over everyone else.
Chat, I'm not going to lie to you. This is an extremely good conspiracy schizo theory and I unironically believe it.
This is probably revenge for winning against Leigh Rothschild, a patent troll that Valve was not supposed to win against. Winning that lawsuit disrupted the status quo of quietly settling like every other tech company does.
In addition to this lawsuit, Valve has 3 other ones just in 2026 so far.
New York State loot box lawsuit filed Feb 23 2026 by Attorney General Letitia James.
US Nation wide class action lawsuit against loot boxes filed March 9 2026.
UK collective proceedings on Steam's pricing + Commissions... Jan 26 2026.
Now this UK's PRS music suit.
FOUR major attacks in under a month can't be a coincidence. Valve embarrassed one of the untouchables and this really feels coordinated.
Valve is a company with its "open" platform one of the last few remaining ungated digital wild west for games and entertainment. Minimal censorship, no ESG, no globalist filter. It directly threatens global tech monopolies and disrupts narratives.
Steam is one of the last bastions for decentralized, player-sovereign, anti-fragile gaming... Gaming has been one of the largest disruptors of the globalist "script" largely giving rise to the current populist surge.
@drewlevin PLEASE YOU CAN HAVE MY ELO if you put in a word for a prox chat option for custom games. Even if it’s just fog of war based it would be content