While I haven’t read those reviews, I think the implications of Steam removing reviews would be worse, since they would effectively be manipulating the user score of a game. User reviews are just that, user reviews. The score should indicate what users think, whatever their reasons may be for thinking it, no?
I don’t disagree with the rest of what you said though.











Guy helped make academic articles and journals available for free to people regardless of their means; guy did the same for public court documents hidden behind a paywall; guy founded a website aimed at keeping track of politicians; guy was involved in several progressive campaigns; guy also helped develop a lot of really cool freely available tech like RSS feeds, the technical architecture for Creative Commons, and the Markdown language. When he was prosecuted for his activism, he eventually rejected a plea bargain for six months when the alternative was 30+ years in prison, and ended up committing suicide.
But yeah, he sure seems like an asshole man who only cared about himself…