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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Mod Rolls Back Game To Pre-‘Censorship’ Version
18.8.2025
Steam players can now continue playing the original version of the Souslike
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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Fans Celebrate Owning The Disc After Controversial Update Censors The Game
14.8.2025
The summer Soulslike no longer lets you kill certain bosses following an apparent backlash among some Chinese players
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Valve Blames ‘NSFW’ Crackdown For Why Some Steam Players Can No Longer Use PayPal To Buy Games Like Cyberpunk 2077
14.8.2025
Only six currencies are currently supported after a sex game crackdown
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Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor ‘NSFW’ Games
1.8.2025
The company said it only requires standards 'based on the rule of law'
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How VTubers Are Leading The Backlash Against Adult Game Censorship
31.7.2025
If you’ve been on social media over the past week, then you’re probably familiar with the backlash against MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, and Stripe. A ragtag movement of gamers, artists, adult content creators, sex workers and queer activists are uniting to resist payment processor-based censorship...
Credit Card Companies Censoring Adult Content 'Endangers Democracy Itself,' According To Nier: Automata Director
25.7.2025
As a fight with credit card companies over adult games leads to renewed concerns about censorship on Steam and even on indie platforms like itch.io, a recent warning by Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro calling censorship a “security hole that endangers democracy itself” has become relevant...
Anti-Porn Group Declares Win Over 'Pedo Gamer Fetishists' After Steam's Mass Sex Game Purge
21.7.2025
Steam recently purged hundreds of sex games featuring explicit content, including many with themes around sexual abuse, after rolling out stricter moderation rules. PC gaming’s biggest storefront appeared to blame pressure from online payment processors for the changes, which some developers worry...
Esports Player Changes Name From ‘Hitler’ To ‘Henry’ And Apologizes
17.7.2025
The vast majority of esports players use a handle when competing rather than their real name. You probably hear the name SonicFox and immediately think of the professional fighting game player, but might not recognize their real name, Dominique McLean. The practice is probably good for brand...
Ready Or Not's Controversial 'Censorship' Patch Rolled Back By Modder Almost Instantly
16.7.2025
Popular online SWAT sim Ready or Not received a patch on Steam removing some nudity and implementing other changes designed to make it easier to port the game to consoles, which have stricter content rules. And within an hour, most of those changes were rolled back by a modder. Read more
Disney+ Removes Sci-Fi Film Because Of Controversial Rat-Drowning Scene
17.6.2025
James Cameron’s 1989 underwater sci-fi flick The Abyss featured a scene in which a panicking rat was plunged into oxygen-rich liquid. It was a sequence that proved so controversial at the time that the United Kingdom’s film board ordered it removed. 36 years later, after a remaster of the unedited...
DeepSeek’s new model a ‘step backward’ for free speech: AI dev
30.5.2025
DeepSeek’s latest AI model flags Xinjiang camps as human rights violations but censors direct criticism of China, raising concerns over contradictions and increased censorship
DeepSeek’s new model a ‘step backward’ for free speech: AI dev
30.5.2025
DeepSeek’s latest AI model flags Xinjiang camps as human rights violations but censors direct criticism of China, raising concerns over contradictions and increased censorship
‘Orange Pilled’ by Censorship: Trump Jr. Links Free Speech and DeFi in Vegas Speech
28.5.2025
Donald Trump Jr. linked his family’s embrace of bitcoin directly to experiences of financial and speech suppression during an appearance at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas. Trump Jr. Rallies Bitcoin Faithful When asked how he was “orange pilled,” Donald Trump Jr. described being...
Telegram’s Durov Calls out French ‘Manipulation’ Over Censorship Demand
20.5.2025
Telegram fiercely rejects alleged French intel pressure to censor conservatives, exposing explosive claims of European election meddling and reaffirming its uncompromising stance on free speech. Telegram Refuses to Be Europe’s Political Weapon Telegram founder Pavel Durov revealed on May 19 that...
‘Dark stablecoins’ could emerge as regulations tighten
12.5.2025
Censorship-resistant “dark stablecoins” could come in increasing demand as governments tighten their oversight of the industry. Stablecoins have been used for various groups to store assets due to a lack of government interference; however, with regulations pending, that could soon...
Alpen Labs Launches Bitcoin-Backed Stablecoin to Boost Censorship Resistance
8.5.2025
Alpen Labs has introduced the bitcoin dollar (BTD), a bitcoin-collateralized stablecoin built on zero-knowledge rollup technology, aiming to provide a censorship-resistant alternative to centralized stablecoins. ZK Rollups Power Alpen’s New Bitcoin-Backed Stablecoin The bitcoin dollar (BTD) will...
Ubisoft Briefly Censors Nudity In An 11-Year Old Far Cry By Accident
4.4.2025
There’s a scene in Far Cry 4 in which a female NPC chastises the player if they look down at her bare chest. “Stop looking at my tits,” she says. Well, at least one player was shocked to find the scene censored when they were playing the 11-year-old Ubisoft game this week. The French publisher says...
Warner Bros. Wipes The Original Looney Tunes From Max
17.3.2025
Warner Bros. appears to continue its landmark campaign for Worst Mega Corporation of 2025, following moves like shutting down Shadow of Mordor developer Monolith Productions and killing its deal with long-running educational children’s show Sesame Street, by removing the original Looney Tunes...
PUBG Creator's Next Game Is Very Different But Even More Ambitious
20.2.2025
Nearly a decade ago, Brendan Greene’s obsession with battle royales fundamentally reshaped gaming. Now the designer, best known by his online moniker “PlayerUnknown,” is toiling away on a new set of projects that could change much more than that if they’re successful. PUBG: Battlegrounds redefined...
Erik Voorhees’ Venice.ai Debuts VVV Token to Combat AI Censorship, Surveillance
28.1.2025
Erik Voorhees, founder of privacy-focused AI platform Venice.ai and crypto exchange Shapeshift, has revealed the launch of VVV token, designed to decentralize access to uncensored AI inference while eliminating per-request costs. Privacy-Focused VVV Token Targets AI Agents with Zero-Cost Inference...