Valve Censoring Torrent References In Steam Chat

dotarray writes It seems Valve is restricting just what you can talk about when using the Steam chat service. Specifically, any reference to a particular torrent site is being stripped from conversation, while mentions of other pages trigger a warning that the site is "potentially malicious." In the wake of website KickassTorrents being taken offline earlier this week, people quickly noticed that references to the torrent site were being stripped from chat - with no warning, notificiation, or acknowledgement that anything is missing. We've seen censorship before, with chat providers blocking certain words, replacing key letters with asterisks or simply substituting inoffensive words for those considered 'problematic.' That's not what Valve is doing here though - the entire message is disappearing, not just the troublesome domain.

Comments

Re:Well duh

[ruir]

rot13, so many others... but why not boycott steam in the first place? Thats what I do not get. Mind you I am not a steam user, but I never liked Microsoft, so I simply do not use any of their products. Not at all. nada. Zero. Is that so difficult to understand?

Re: I don't see the problem

[Richard_at_work]

So, basically exactly what I said then?

The stupidity abounds - that's like taking a meth addict at face value when you ask them if they aren't doing any illegal drugs...