Not too long ago, an Australian modchip supplier was supplying a device that allowed gamers to backup their legit game copies to internal or external USB devices and play them from there.
Unfortunately, the success the device has been shortlived. Sony recently demanded that all orders for this device to be cancelled, in which the manufacturers agreed to and promptly the modchip supplier refunded all the paid orders that were queued.
TweetDeck, a powerful Twitter client for operating systems, has been a victim of a scamming attack by another party. The issue came into attention when the lead TweetDeck developers found out that an unofficial version of their product for Android devices was released by “Hijacked Account, GmbH” with the price tag of $1.00 USD on the Android Market. This fake version has numerous features removed and may be incompatible with some devices.
The issue was raised when the offical TweetDeck developer twitter account tweeted the following quote:
Anime, Manga and Gaming (not to mention sometimes not-safe-for-work) Blog Sankaku Complex has been quietly slipped in the Google Blacklist of words, thus as an result, being removed from search results in the mentioned search engine’s auto-complete features and the system is slowing removing results from the search results for the “Sankaku Complex” term.
However, Google doesn’t seem likely to release details as to why the site has been censored from search results. This has also happened to some other websites, which involve content that is inappropriate to list here. There is also some debate over the censoring of certain words in some languages, while a innocent-looking word can be censored when a non-family safe word slips through the so-called “SafeSearch” filter. It is even worth noting that websites with porn content may not be censored from “SafeSearch” enabled searches.
