Garry’s Mod considering bans for “Nazis”

pcgamesn.com:

The home to Half-Life mods and fan creations, as well as custom servers and homebrew games based around Counter-Strike, Portal, Left 4 Dead, and other Valve works, Garry’s Mod is considering banning servers and players that celebrate Nazi ideals. Part FPS game, part builder, Garry’s Mod is host to many online roleplay communities. But eponymous creator Garry Newman says there is a problem, as “lurking in some of these games are a bunch of guys that really seem to love the Nazis,” and he issues a poll asking fans if these kinds of players should be banned outright.

Garry’s Mod hosts a range of different roleplay servers, including community-driven games based on World War 2 and its history. In many cases, this serves as traditional, historical reenactment. Some Garry’s Mod communities, however, use the game to celebrate the Nazis, with Newman now saying that the G-Mod development team is considering “outright banning” various activities and material.

“The problem for us is that lurking in some of these games are a bunch of guys that really seem to love the Nazis,” Newman says. “It seems like a few of them really love the Nazis outside of the game, too. The question for us is, ‘how do we keep the good stuff and get rid of the bad stuff?’

“We obviously don’t want to ban all WW2-themed games, but we do want to get rid of the celebration of Nazis. Maybe outright banning swastikas, heil Hilters, and other Nazi symbolism is the way to go? Banning symbols and stuff sounds like they’d just use another symbol, but in my opinion, these people are so fragile that one concession would be too much for them, and they’d find somewhere else.”

Newman also posts a Twitter poll, asking followers for their response with regard to outright