PS5 and PS5 Pro owners have been warned by PlayStation that they could be banned from PSN due to a new issue. Both PlayStation and Xbox heavily suppressed moderation during the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S console generations. For this reason, more and more PlayStation and Xbox fans are being excluded from PSN and Xbox Live respectively. And many of these suspensions or bans are for things that were either previously off topic or not enforced through moderation. However, with the rise of AI/automated moderation, this is changing.

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The most important post on the PS5 Reddit page right now is a post warning that PlayStation is now cracking down on link sharing. This also includes sending Google URLs. This has technically been against the Code of Conduct since the PS5’s release, but it appears it will be more heavily enforced now.

The post shows that they received three emails from PlayStation regarding a code violation for sending different Google.com URLs in PSN messages. The warning specifically read as follows: “Sharing malicious URLs, including those that could harm another player.”

As PS5 points out, normal URLs have never been enforced before, or at least that has been their experience and the experience of PS5 users in the post’s comments.

“This is completely automated and happens the moment you send the message. It’s also not the first time in the PS5 cycle that this has happened. They’ve automated deleting Google/YouTube links before, but it’s never taken more than a week, and notably, they’ve never sent a behavioral violation email for regular URLs. Either they’ve screwed up the automation or they’re going all out on the URLs.”