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Ethereum Eyes Censorship Resistance With Distributed Block Building Vision

11.1.2026
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has declared the blockchain trilemma solved following the December 2025 Fusaka upgrade. The protocol is shifting toward distributed block building to prevent builder oligopolies from controlling transaction inclusion. Experts like Mo Dong note that while...

Diablo 4 In China Censored, Blood And Skeletons Removed

10.11.2025
A large skeleton boss found in Blizzard's action RPG is made out of rocks in the upcoming Chinese version The post Diablo 4 In China Censored, Blood And Skeletons Removed appeared first on Kotaku

Bitcoin.com Launches $1M Freedom Dollar (fUSD) Rewards Campaign to Accelerate Adoption of Private, Censorship-Resistant Payments

17.10.2025
In a world where digital transactions are increasingly monitored and controlled, Bitcoin.com is taking a stand for financial privacy. Freedom Dollar Campaign Champions Privacy and Financial Freedom Bitcoin.com today launched a $1,000,000 rewards campaign to introduce millions of users to Freedom...

Telegram Founder Calls out Governments for Censorship and Control in Explosive X Post

10.10.2025
On his birthday, Pavel Durov — founder of Telegram — published a message on X slamming governments. He cautioned that the free exchange of information is being “turned into the ultimate tool of control,” and warned that “our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms.”...

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Quietly Patches Out Censorship Of Arc Raiders’ Name

6.10.2025
The military shooter’s beta doesn’t want you saying the name of one of its competitors The post Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Quietly Patches Out Censorship Of Arc Raiders’ Name appeared first on Kotaku

Durov Reveals Hidden Push by French Intelligence to Censor Telegram Channels

29.9.2025
Telegram is pushing back hard against mounting political pressure, as founder Pavel Durov exposed explosive interference attempts tied to censorship demands ahead of key elections. Durov Breaks Silence on Political Interference Attempt Through Platform Control Governments pressuring digital...

Ordinals dev floats forking Bitcoin Core amid censorship concerns

8.9.2025
Bitcoin Ordinals leader Leonidas said his community would fork Bitcoin Core if developers reversed the upcoming update that allows for more Ordinals and Runes transactions

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 The post Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Mod Rolls Back Game To Pre-‘Censorship’ Version appeared first on Kotaku

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 The post Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Fans Celebrate Owning The Disc After Controversial Update Censors The Game appeared first on Kotaku

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 The post Valve Blames ‘NSFW’ Crackdown For Why Some Steam Players Can No Longer Use PayPal To Buy Games Like Cyberpunk 2077 appeared first on Kotaku

Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor ‘NSFW’ Games

1.8.2025
The company said it only requires standards 'based on the rule of law' The post Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor ‘NSFW’ Games appeared first on Kotaku

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...