Steam is not paying taxes in Vietnam, and they have no official employee in Vietnam, that serves as a contact person. The latter is required by law. E.g. Shops need to have a shield on their front, giving contact information, and communicate clearly who's behind this shop (private person or company).

[–] harald_im_netz@feddit.de 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

btw thay's the same reason why Steam Germany has exactly ONE employee.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

LMAO, must be fun when people asked that you are the sole employee at valve/steam

[–] harald_im_netz@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

In Germany. As far as I know the guy has a great time :-)

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I believe you, do you have a good source on this?

[–] harald_im_netz@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

No, read that on r/steam from a vietnamese user, and it's my first-hand experience regarding Germany. Still, might be wrong. But people tend to jump on South-east Asian (SEA)-countries, smelling suppression, and malintent, when often it's common law, even in western countries, but newly enforced in SEA countries

[–] besbin@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

Doesn't seems to be an official ban. My friends in Vietnam are still able to access Steam just an hour ago. This is most likely a situation like those manga websites black listed by Comcast or AT&T DNS.