abuse

Nintendo Updates Repair TOS to Exclude People Who Harass or Abuse their Staff!

If you buy a tech product and it breaks shortly after, you clearly have a right to not just have…

2 years ago

Japan Enacts New Law With Up to 1 Year in Prison Now for Online Abuse!

Online abuse is clearly a pretty huge problem. And, unfortunately, one that doesn't seem to have a magic bullet solution…

2 years ago

Twitter Is Taking Part in a Study To Reduce Online Abuse

Twitter Takes Part in a study to reduce online abusive When it comes to social media, you often don't have…

7 years ago

Amazon Employee Attempts Suicide After E-Mail Warning to CEO

Move over Foxconn, there's a new king of Kafkaesque, oppressive-working conditions-driving-employees-to-suicide company: Amazon.com. A distressed Amazon employee jumped off the company's…

8 years ago

Valve to Stop Steam Review Cheats

While for many Steam reviews are a place to write potentially humourous comments, for developers, the Steam review section is…

8 years ago

Police Looking to Help Support Victims of Online Abuse

We've all been online on those late nights, reading our favourite news or finding out the most up to date…

8 years ago

Yahoo Taught a Machine to Detect Abuse Online

The internet is a wide and open place, capable of catching the imaginations and dreams of millions of people with…

8 years ago

PINE A64 Creators Receive Death Threats over Kickstarter Campaign

The creators of the PINE A64, a Raspberry Pi-esque single board computer, which demolished its $31,416 Kickstarter funding goal, raising…

9 years ago

Street Fighter V Ragequitter Punishment Not as Effective as Hoped

Last week, Capcom revealed that they were aware of the issue of ragequitters damaging the online mode of their recently…

9 years ago

Capcom to Add “Severe Punishment” for Street Fighter 5 Ragequitters

Street Fighter V's online play has a big problem, rage quitters. Players who wish to retain their winning streak despite…

9 years ago

Microsoft Ends Unlimited OneDrive Storage Due to ‘User Abuse’

Microsoft's cloud storage service has proved to be incredibly popular due to its unlimited data policy. However, reports from The Wall…

9 years ago

Twitter “Sucks at Dealing With Abuse,” According to CEO

A leaked memo reveals that Twitter CEO Dick Costolo recognises the company’s failure to deal with abuse on the social…

10 years ago

Gaming Reviewer Contacts Mothers of Trolls

Alanah Pearce, an Australian gaming reviewer on the radio and on YouTube, has come up with a novel method of…

10 years ago

Online Trolls Can Now Receive up to 2 Years in Jail

The UK government is ramping up efforts to tackle online abuse. Internet trolls are nothing new, but with more people…

10 years ago

Woman Arrested for Child-Trafficking on Facebook

Every corner of Facebook these days has a local buy, sell and swap page and mostly you'll find reasonable items…

12 years ago