Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Valve blocks CS:GO map that gives news in Russian about war in Ukraine


News article in English about the map: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-cs-go-map-bypasses-russias-censorship-of-ukraine-war-news/

Tl;dr: Finnish news paper Helsingin Sanomat made a map in cs:go called de_voyna that gives news in Russian about the war in Ukraine to bypass Russian censorship

Fresh news article in Finnish: https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000009623031.html?share=2f4da21814ed2abfdfc8bef09aa8744d

Summary in English:

Valve blocks the map for russian IPs and gives no comment to Helsingin Sanomat when requested. Russian government wouldn't have been able to block the custom map without blocking basically all of steam so they conclude that Valve must have been involved in getting the map blocked.

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