Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto | Getty Images) Brussels has warned Elon Musk that Twitter must comply with the EU’s new digital rules under his ownership, or risk hefty fines or even a ban, setting the stage for a global regulatory battle over the future of the social media platform. Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner for the […]
Enlarge (credit: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Facebook has given politicians extreme leeway with what they can post, essentially treating them as a special class of user. Now, that policy will reportedly change, perhaps as early as today. The impetus for the change seems to be a looming deadline that Facebook’s Oversight Board gave the company […]
Enlarge / Before you tweet, you might be asked if you meant to be so rude. (credit: Getty Images / Sam Machkovech) Want to know exactly what Twitter’s fleet of text-combing, dictionary-parsing bots defines as “mean”? Starting any day now, you’ll have instant access to that data—at least, whenever a stern auto-moderator says you’re not […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Thomas Trutschel) In a new set of guidelines posted Wednesday, livestreaming company Twitch said that it will start enforcing its policies against “hateful conduct and harassment [for actions] that occur off Twitch services.” That means such conduct “directed at members of the Twitch community [on]… social media, other online services, […]
Enlarge / An image from the censored version of Super Seducer 3 suggests the kinds of “sexually explicit images of real people” that are apparently not allowed on Steam. Valve has refused to approve controversial pickup artist game Super Seducer 3 for sale on Steam. The company says the game breaks a rule saying that […]
Enlarge / An archived copy of Emoji Evolution‘s Steam store page shows how hard it is to distinguish the developer’s “Very Positive” name from the merely “Positive” review summary (on the right). Here at Ars, we’ve covered Valve banning Steam game developers for everything from sexual content and gratuitous ultra-violence to ill-defined “trolling”. But we’ve […]