Steam service takes down all material banned in Russia - Roskomnadzor

MOSCOW. Oct 15 (Interfax) - Steam, an online service for distribution of computer games and programs, has removed all illegal content from its resources at the demand of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor), the agency's press service told journalists on Tuesday.

"The Steam company complied with requirements of the law to delete prohibited information. The links to eleven webpages, earlier included in the Register [of prohibited information], will now be removed from it. The platform has deleted over 260 pieces of illegal content in total," Roskomnadzor said.

The eleven pages of illegal content were taken down by the company over past week, it said.

Roskomnadzor had registered illegal content on a Steam resource and entered the links to such material into the Unified Register of prohibited information, it said.

Steam was designed and is supported by the U.S. firm Valve. The service launched in September 2003.