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Riot Games added some new clauses to its Terms of Service that could put some players in hot water for unbecoming behavior that occurs across the various places that touch their gaming experience. Players can face penalties, suspensions and even Riot-wide bans if they are caught violating these new rules. The new clauses first appeared on Riots Privacy Notice and TOS on Tuesday. Creators have until January 3, 2025 to adjust their content to adhere to these rules, according to Riot Games announcement. The new Off-Platform conduct rule gives Riot Games the right to issue game penalties when hateful content is brought to their attention. The new clause says Riot Games wont proactively search for social media for violations. Instead, players can report cases about an offending players conduct on a livestream in which one of its games serves as the background of the content produced. If Riot determines that the player violated its TOS, Riot could issue a penalty as if that behavior occurred in-game, according to the TOS. The new TOS rules also focus on stream sniping in which streamers and players hijack or interrupt another streams online sessions. The penalty system for these infractions are still in the early testing phases using a limited number of English-speaking Valorant creators. Repeat offenders of these and other infractrations could result in complete bans from all Riot Games accounts. The new TOS states that Riot can issue multiple penalties and bans for streamers and players who commit a seriously egregious violation or problematic behavior. Riot Games has dedicated a lot of time recently to discussing and exploring ways to rein in offensive and ill behavior in its games. Valorant studio head and Riot Games Senior Vice President Anna Donlon acknowledged in May that Riot absolutely needs to do better to protect its players laying out new actions they planned to take such as implementing new penalties and increasing support for manual reviews of reports, according to Eurogamer. Twitch has also taken steps to curb some of its users disturbing and damaging behavior. Last year, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy announced new terms for the streaming platform during the opening ceremony for TwitchCon in Las Vegas. The new rules established suspensions and bans for streamers who dox or swat other players and the ability for streamers and moderators to anonymously send warnings to chatters who commit bad behavior during sessions.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/riot-games-is-cracking-down-on-players-off-platform-conduct-173303058.html?src=rss
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Meta is said to be planning a fiber-optic subsea internet cable that will span the world and could cost north of $10 billion. The project, which was originally reported by subsea cable expert Sunil Tagare, could be formally announced early next year. However, sources linked to Meta told TechCrunch that the project is in the early stages. Only a few contractors would be capable of building out that infrastructure and many are tied up with commitments to other customers. If the project does come to fruition, its likely to take several years before the cable is laid and switched on. Meta is said to be the part-owner of more than a dozen subsea networks but this would be the first one that it owns and operates entirely. Google has a few of its own, though Amazon and Microsoft don't have any dedicated cables and are part owners of others. Meta will reportedly be the sole user of its cable. The company and its services are said to account for about 10 percent of global fixed internet usage (and about 22 percent of mobile traffic). At this point, Meta generates more revenue from international markets than it does in North America. The cable would give it greater ownership over its infrastructure in the aim of ensuring its services are as stable as possible, though ISPs and mobile providers will still of course be responsible for keeping users' devices connected. Meta has worked its own Wi-Fi and mobile internet projects, but it wound down the former in 2022. Its expected that the cable will run from the US east coast to South Africa then to India and the north coast of Australia before hitting the west coast. All told, the cable could be at least 25,000 miles or so long. That supposedly safe route would avoid areas where there are said to be "major single points of failure," according to Tagare. Those include the Red Sea, the South China Sea, Egypt, Marseilles, the Straits of Malacca and Singapore. It would also steer clear of many geopolitical hotspots. Two undersea cables were severed in the Baltic Sea over the couple of weeks. Investigators believe that a Chinese commercial trawler possibly acting under the influence of Russian intelligence cut the cables by dragging its anchor along the seabed. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-is-reportedly-planning-a-10-billion-globe-spanning-subsea-internet-cable-161613820.html?src=rss
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The Thai Health Promotion Foundation and the Women and Men Progressive Foundation have partnered with BBDO Bangkok to launch a campaign against domestic violence with a bold twist. The campaign centers around the late Gigi Supitcha, a Thai public figure who tragically lost her life in 2023. Supitcha had previously survived a near-fatal confrontation with her partner, only to face another incident of violence by the same individual, leading to her death.
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