Tag: censorship
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#BoycottBlizzard getting even stronger
As you’ve probably heard Blizzard banned one of their Hearthstone professional players around a week ago after he expressed support for protests in Hong Kong – people over there are demanding democracy from the Chinese government. Shortly after that the Internet exploded, people posted a lot of #BoycottBlizzard posts on Twitter and reddit. On Sunday…
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Steam removes games with pornographic content
It seems that in around two weeks Steam is going to remove (some) games with pornographic content, even though those games don’t really contain any of that (officially). The developers of Mutiny have even discounted their game so that people could buy it before it disappears completely from Steam – you’ll still be able to…
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Samsung removes YouTube videos showing GTA V mod that turns Note 7 into a bomb
Oh man, Samsung is having a really bad time this year. Some of their phones are already banned in airlines around the globe. And now gamers are on to them, GTA V modders are usually doing some nasty stuff and this time they’ve decided to put Note 7 into the game and… turn into C4.…
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Hatred removed from Steam Greenlight after few hours
Steam Greenlight is one of those things that sounded good in theory but after a while most of the gamers I know hate it, so many crappy, unfinished games on there it’s kind of funny. Of course ther are exceptions but few weeks ago they allowed Postal on Greenlight without any problem and when the…
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Update: Valve taking action against gifts from USA and Russia!
People in the Steam gifting-scene from Russia and USA claim that they have received emails from Valve, urging them to stop gifting to players from Europe. On some accounts, buying games has been completely disabled. This is completely unacceptable. For most of people, buying games via a USA-gifter has never been about getting the…
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ACTA – another offensive against the freedom on the Internet
Hey guess what!? Now European Wikipedia (after the US Wikipedia yesterday) will have to demonstrate another blackout pretty soon. The plan is simple, sometime in January 2012 most of European Union countries is probably going to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a very controversial international agreement aimed at extermination of piracy and counterfeiting. Information…
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What is SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act)?
I know this isn’t exactly game, sales or whatever related but if you’re the Internet user you probably should know what SOPA is. Great video by TotalBiscuit:
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European Union against domains being taken over by the USA
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution which criticizes domain name seizures of “infringing” websites by US authorities. According to the resolution these measures need to be countered as they endanger “the integrity of the global internet and freedom of communication.” With this stance the European Parliament joins an ever-growing list of opposition to the…
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Mouths wide shut
A user called gimpymoo created a thread on Steam Forums called Should Valve open a European Office?. After few hours the thread got shut down…by the Steam Forums Administrator, and apparently for him an office in Australia (that’s where he’s from) is a priority and he decided to close the thread. In case this gets…