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Steam introduces chat filtering to weed out slurs, profanity – Polygon
Steam will begin offering Text & Chat Filtering through its Steam client, website and mobile app. The feature automatically obscures the top offenders among offensive words and hate speech. It’s available now via Steam Labs beta.

Valve is working on a text and chat filtering feature for Steam that will allow players to control what comes to their attention when playing popular online multiplayer games.
Steam Text & Chat Filtering is available now, in a beta version, through Steam Labs. Valve Corp. said the tool was built on the chat filtering Steam already developed for games like Counter-Strike: Global OffensiveandDota 2.
The new tool moves it to Steam for a customized experience that is consistent across support…
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