right?' nearly 74 percent of the nearly 50,000 respondents agreed, saying, 'Yes, ban them.' When Newman asked, 'There's no legit reason for to exist. Garry's Mod's newest rule came after Newman ran a Twitter poll gauging player interest in banning 'nazi gamemodes' on the game's many roleplaying servers. 'What will they learn? What will come to be acceptable to them?' “A bunch of guys that really seem to love the nazis.” 'I think to myself, what if they get on one of these servers with these nutters,' Newman tweeted. We really should make sure as much as possible that the assumption is correct.' Advertisement There's a gradient of time where you're giving your kids more freedom online and you're trying to let them into new areas to explore because you think they're safe. Now, as a parent, Newman said his attitude became 'less black and white.

'People shouldn't be on the Internet if they can't handle the real world. 'When I was younger, in my 20s, I had the attitude that anything goes,' Newman said in a direct message conversation with Ars.

That new rule represents a change of heart for Garry's Mod creator Garry Newman, who told Ars his outlook on what should and shouldn't be allowed in online spaces has changed since he became a parent to two children (currently 9 and 6 years old). On April 20, those scant rules were updated with one more specific prohibition: 'Display of swastikas, the nazi salute or other glorification of nazism is prohibited, even for 'roleplay' purposes.' For a long time, the only things that could get a server explicitly 'blacklisted' by developer Facepunch Studios were sexual violence, unmarked NSFW content, fraudulent server information, or 'malicious actions' that essentially hacked a player's local game installation. Further Reading Garry’s Mod to be sold via SteamIn the realm of online game moderation, the official Server Operator Rules for Source Engine physics sandbox Garry's Mod have always been pretty forgiving.

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