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Reddit Harassment Crackdown after CEO Falls Victim to Attacks
A new harassment crackdown is being launched reddit, aimed at stymying the rising toxicity – or “draining the swamp,” if you will – with CEO Steve Huffman announcing that the site’s hierarchy will stop turning a blind eye to festering toxicity and start actually enforcing its content policy to ban…
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Activision is Harassing a Modder After He Reveals Odds of Drops
Call Of Duty is one of the biggest franchises in the gaming world, with releases year after year from no less than 3 developers now. With so many games it comes as no surprise that their modding community is quite active as well, bringing new maps and options to gamers…
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German Court Rules Facebook’s ‘Friends Finder’ Unlawful
The highest court in Germany has ruled that Facebook’s ‘Friends Finder’ function is unlawful on the grounds that it scrapes the e-mail contacts of users in order to market the social media site to other users. The German Federal Court of Justice found that the feature – a complaint in…
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SXSW Gaming Events Cancelled After ‘Threats Of Violence’
Well this is a mess but here goes, two gaming events have been cancelled at the South-by-Southwest (SXSW) festival that is due to take place next year (March 2016), after organisers confirmed they have become victim to continuous threats of violence which includes a direct message of the potential for…
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Reddit Launches New Harassment Rules
Reddit is banning a handful of its worst communities. “Our goal is to enable as many people as possible to have authentic conversations and share ideas and content on an open platform,” “We want as little involvement as possible in managing these interactions but will be involved when needed to protect…
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Permanently League of Legends Ban for Profanity in Just 15 Minutes
This was bound to happen sooner or later since most players I’ve seen on either League of Legends or Dota 2 gain faster profanity skills than any other game-wise skills. Thankfully, Riot Games shares the same vision and wants to keep League of Legends a fun and welcoming place. The…
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Lizard Squad Teen Guilty Of 23 Charges Of Online Harassment and Swatting
Lizard Squad was once an unknown name among a lot of people, however, this changed when both the Playstation Online and Xbox Gold systems were taken offline over the Christmas Period. The group claiming responsibility, Lizard Squad, then began selling their services to hack and DOS (denial of service attack,…
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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 getting back at her online trolls and harassers. In a Guardian article, she says that she discovered that many of her online bullies were young boys, not 40-year-old men. “A…
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