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What is Club Penguin?

The multiplayer online game Club Penguin has been re-launched after being discontinued in March 2017 because of high demand.
In February, the creators had announced that the online community would make a comeback with a revamped one.
Confirming the games re-launch, it said that 6 million users have signed up for the game till now.
“Thank you, everyone, for supporting us to achieve this,” read the tweet.

Back in February, the game maker had said, “We have updated our website!
We are preparing for the new era Club Penguin Online is about to enter – and the website transformation is just the beginning”.
Following the announcement on Twitter, gamers are going gaga, with one exciting user.
They write, “Huge congrats to CPO for reaching 6 million penguins. I love this community to bits”.
And also, Club Penguin Online shuts down after receiving a copyright claim from Disney.
Club Penguin Online is an unlicensed revival of the Disney-owned children’s social networking site.
It is one of the game’s largest fan replicas, accruing over 7 to 8 million users over the last two years.
In a blog from this week, The Penguin Online wrote that the game would no longer be running “after May 2020” due to a copyright claim.
The notice, which is available through the nonprofit Lumen Database, says the site “is an unauthorized version of the Club Penguin game and contains infringing copyrighted content.”

The game appears to have complied with the restricted order; publication, the website is no longer available.
“If one does try to revive the game, it’ll be challenging now as you will have to worry about Disney, and in all honestly, it isn’t worth it,” the admin wrote.
A BBC investigation finds that the Club Penguin Online game is not moderate by staff, and it is littering with racist and anti semitic content.
According to the BBC, a London man associate with the website was arrested for suspicion of child abuse images by the Metropolitan Police.
That man was released on bail. It’s unclear if the child pornography arrest relating to the project’s broader moderation issues.

The Disney’s Club Penguin was one of the first games on social networks for children.
And also, it was launching in 2005; it had more than 200 million players at its peak.
Anybody could join the original website, employing content filters and human moderators to stop inappropriate messages or personal information from sharing.

This online game is the largest private server and uses Disney’s branding.
One former staff member said that the project had made about £9,000 through advertisements, while most of the staff are unpaid young volunteers.

There is a competition between Club Penguin Online and other unofficial versions that had escalated in the past five to six months.
The server owners accused one another of the actions of hacking and harassment.
One of them said it was a toxic community, “like playing Game of Thrones with penguins”.
And also, the game online volunteer encourages to carry out rival server attacks when he was a minor.
“I would find out and publish personal details, like addresses, what they looked like, their family’s information.