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    "text": "Contents · Live article\n\nMaster scandal archive\nValve Scandals Master Registry — 160 Sourced Incidents\n\nReported. Sourced. Still open.\n\nWHAT THIS SECTION PROVES\n\nThis registry collects 160 source-linked records: user reviews, removed community posts, public issue reports and incident references concerning Valve's ecosystem. Each record should be assessed through its linked source, date and context. Inclusion in this collection is not independent verification of every allegation, and a report's disappearance does not by itself establish who removed it or why.\n\n18 October 2026 · scope clarification. Earlier wording described all records as independently verified. The collection supports inspection of the linked reports; titles and categories are editorial summaries, and user accounts remain reported claims unless corroborated by additional evidence.\n\n← Back to Executive briefing\n\nExplore the 160 collected records by category, then open the original source. Titles and categories summarize the retained material; they are not a substitute for reading it. Check whether a source is a first-person account, an issue report, a publication or an official record before drawing conclusions.\n\nSource Records\n—\nAcross all categories\nPlatform Flaws\n—\nCommunity-reported platform flaws\nRemoved threads\n—\nModerator-removed Reddit posts\nSupport Complaints\n—\nCollected Trustpilot reviews\nEnforcement feasibility\nAuth-host domain blocking\n\nDomain-level blocking of OpenID authentication hosts is technically straightforward to implement: once a resource is barred from Steam login redirection, third-party domains acting as authentication proxies for that same resource can be filtered by the same rule set. A detailed discussion of implementation feasibility is provided in the main dossier.\n\nSee enforcement feasibility in the dossier →\n\nSearch the 160 source-linked registry records online.",
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