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Valve Anti-Cheat ( VAC) is an anti-cheat tool developed by Valve as a component of the Steam platform, first released with Counter-Strike in 2002. When the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection. [1] It may kick players from the game if it detects errors ...
Retrieved 1 July 2024. China's "Great Firewall" is one of the world's most comprehensive internet censorship regimes, preventing citizens from accessing websites like Instagram, Wikipedia and YouTube. ^ a b "China's Facebook Status: Blocked". ABC News.
In March 2014, in the midst of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the LiveJournal blog of Alexei Navalny, Kasparov.ru and Grani.ru were blocked by the government. These sites, which opposed the Russian government, were blocked for "making calls for unlawful activity and participation in mass events held with breaches of public ...
As such, sites linking to sites which acted as proxies to The Pirate Bay were themselves added to the list of banned sites, including piratebayproxy.co.uk, piratebayproxylist.com and ukbay.org. This led to the indirect blocking (or hiding) of sites at the following domains, among others: [ 40][ 41]
Internet censorship in Vietnam is implemented in the country, according to a 2009 report from Reporters Without Borders. [ 1] Vietnam regulates its citizens' Internet access using both legal and technical means. The government's efforts to regulate, monitor, and provide oversight regarding Internet use has been referred to as a "Bamboo Firewall".
Some websites may be blocked as suspected scam websites. [ 1] However, websites that are blocked in Singapore are easily circumvented by a DNS change without the need to use a VPN. [ 2] As of 2019, there were 202 vice-related websites blocked by Singaporean authorities. [ 3]
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Following the 2009 election protests, Iran ratified the Computer Crimes Law (CCL) in 2010. [30] The CCL established legal regulations for internet censorship. Notable provisions of the CCL include the following: Article 10, which effectively prohibits internet users and companies from using encryption or protecting data in a manner that would "deny access of authorized individuals to data ...