
Tag : ban
Anti-Cheat System Banning Dark Souls III Players Without Reason
When it comes to online games, you have to be careful when you play because some will find ways to cheat and increase the odds in their favour through less than legitimate reasons. When this happens…
Drones Banned From Flying While Obama Visits London
People love drones, from their ability to race around the skies to capturing the most picture perfect moments you just don’t feel safe taking yourself. Sadly if you were looking at grabbing a quick picture of…
You Will Get Banned If You Exploit Bad Coding In The Division
The Division is Ubisoft’s’ latest game and lets players explore and conduct missions in the destroyed husk of New York city, with the latest introduction, Falcon Lost, introducing raid-like missions titled “incursions” that gave you a…
Amazon Bans Bad USB Type-C Cables
Everyone knows about USB cables. Used for everything from transferring important information from one device to another to charging your devices, they are seen everywhere and the USB Type-C Cables are no exception. Some people were…
New Bill Prevents Federal Agencies Purchasing Apple Products
Apple is currently in congress talking to and explaining the impact that removing or bypassing protection on their iPhones would have if they followed a court order to do so for the FBI. In what may…
Mozilla Bans Popular YouTube Unblocker Add-On
One of Firefox’s popular add-ons has been kicked from the repository after repeated bad behavior, and it is unlikely to come back. The YouTube add-on uses a list of proxy servers to circumvent geoblocking of YouTube videos,…
Whatsapp Was Temporarily Banned in Brazil
One day after a court order in Sao Paulo banned the popular social messaging app for the entire nation of Brazil, WhatsApp is back in action across the country. In a decision that is likely bringing…
EU lawmakers Propose Banning Under 16s From The Internet Without Parental Consent
Well this is, err, something, reports are circulating that under 16s could technically be banned from online services that include Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat unless they get permission from a parent. This quirk of fate if…
Town Bans Solar Panels For “Sucking Up All The Energy Of The Sun”
Solar panels are a great step in renewable energy. They are constantly being upgraded, from absorbing new areas of the light spectrum to being made see-through. Companies and governments are understanding their importance and role they could play…

Windows 10 Banned by Torrent Trackers
Paranoia over Windows 10’s privacy policy is reaching its apex with the news that users of the operating system have been banned by a number of torrent trackers. The excessive prohibition has been implemented over concerns…
The Big Reddit Quarantine Begins
Since new CEO Steve Huffman took the reins at reddit, its community has been bracing itself for a promised purge of the site’s “dark side”, where users engage in discussion and activity related to, let’s say,…
Rockstar Responds to FiveM Modder Bans
It has barely been two days since Rockstar banned the people behind the already popular third-party multi-player mod made by the FiveM mod team and we could only speculate on the reason up until now. The mod…
Russia Threatens to Ban Reddit
First it was gay emojis and memes. Now mother Russia is threatening to ban the whole of reddit, unless the site’s administrators start banning marijuana-growing tutorials. Roskomnadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision for Telecom, Information Technologies,…
Facebook Keeps Banning People With Unconventional Names
How weird can a name be for Facebook decides to ban you from creating profile page? Well, apparently not that weird. This is the case of Al Overdrive, who got his Facebook account disabled second time…
China Bans Supercomputer and UAV Exports Based on National Security Concerns
The Chinese superpower seems to be a bit concerned about its latest tech getting into the wrong hands and has banned the export of unlicensed supercomputers and some UAV models. The ban seems to forbid any…
Russia Looking Into Blocking Facebook Over Gay Emoji
Russia has been trying to push a lot of western companies out of the country for some time now. After it closed access to Google and Intel back in 2014, the country is now looking to…
David Cameron Plans to Ban WhatsApp
Since Edward Snowden spilled the beans on how government agencies spy on us, a lot of companies took precautions in preserving users’ privacy when using their apps. But it seems that will be made illegal and…
Europe Gets New Laws to Protect Net Neutrality
It’s the weekend and you decide you’re going to pop over the channel to go do a bit of shopping and enjoy a bit of Europe. While you’re abroad you realise you need to make a few…

Apple Pulls iOS Apps and Games with US Confederate Flag
Backlash from the Charleston shooting is spilling into the digital realm as more Conferdate flag imagery is removed. This time, Apple is pulling iOS apps the feature the Confederate flag, most notably games that feature the flag.…
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…
Blizzard Kills Over 100,000 WoW Accounts With Six Month Bans
World Of Warcraft can claim to be the start of the MMO craze. Allowing thousands of players to take part in events that shaped Azeroth. With legendary weapons and characters alike to help and hinder players…
No Bans for GTA V Single Player Mods
As Rockstar was banning the players who were using mods (modification like FOV mod ) on both Single-player and Multiplayer mode of Grand Theft Auto : V. This resulted in making the gaming community quite unhappy.…
Rockstar Banning Users of FOV Mod in GTA V!
Grant Theft Auto V has been with us for a couple of weeks now and while many of us are quite happy tearing around the gameworld, both online and offline, some users have been working hard…
Coachella and Lollapalooza Ban Selfie Sticks
As a way to help the rest of the public that do not carry around selfie sticks enjoy the events both Coachella and Lollapalooza have banned the devices. This comes on the heels of other music…
Facebook Bans ‘Feeling Fat’?
Facebook users know that you can post a vast number of activities on your timeline, from what you are doing, like watching a certain movie, to how you are feeling at a moment in time. But…
Professional Counter-Strike Players Hit With Life-Long Tournament Bans
After eSports organiser ESEA expelled a number of professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player involved in a betting ring, Valve has followed suit, banning those players involved from all future Valve-sponsored events, or ‘Valve Majors’. The Counter-Strike…
PS4 and Vita To Go on Sale in China
From 11th January, the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita will finally go on sale in China. The news is significant as they are some of the first Western consoles to go on sale in China, following the lifting…