Steam now lets you make a custom list of words you want filtered from your chat experience, Steam owner Valve has announced. The Steam Text & Chat Filtering feature already removes commonly used ...

A federal court upheld the First Amendment rights of users online on Thursday, finding the Arkansas State Police unlawfully used Facebook‘s content moderation tools to censor speech on the ...

Valve has announced that users now have access to a beta feature that enables them to filter unwanted words from chat, preventing conversations from being derailed. The feature is available now ...

Software that changes one word in a message for another. A word filter is often used to clean up offensive language but it is also used as a prank. Macros are a form of word filtering because they can ...

Steam is testing a new chat filter system that’ll allow users to customize their experience by blocking certain words or phrases they don’t want to see. A chat filtering service is already in place on ...

Instagram will automatically filter out abusive messages from users’ inbox, it has announced. The new update for the Facebook-owned photo service will focus on direct message requests, but not the ...

Threads will also let you choose the words, phrases, and emoji to hide. Threads will also let you choose the words, phrases, and emoji to hide. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer ...

If the recent situation about the newest Ghostbusters is any evidence, people can be pretty mean on the internet. Online trolls can amass quickly and it can be hard to stop them once they get going.

PureFlix.com, a streaming service catering to evangelicals, today announced that it will allow users to filter out words like “hell” and “damn” from its programming. Pure Flix Entertainment, which ...

Microsoft's language filter on Xbox Live is strangling the linguistic skills of Quarrel players, banning such words as "help," "train," "balls" and "shaft" from being played. While we can understand ...