Microsoft Ban's Gay Gamer Tag
Published by: wes213 on Thursday, May 15, 2008
Microsoft’s Stephen Toulouse posted a small piece 9in his blog about the terms of use and why Thad felt the need to ban a guy for using the tag “thegayergamer”.
Stephen Toulouse said: “[a member may not] Create a Gamer-tag or use text in other profile fields that may offend other members. This includes comments that look, sound like, stand for, hint at, abbreviate, or insinuate any of the following: profane words/phrases, sexually explicit language, sexual innuendo, hate speech (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, or religious slurs), illegal drugs/controlled substances, or illegal activities.
“We view these situations objectively during our review under the terms of use,” Toulouse added. “To answer the question another way, yes ‘TheStraighterGamer’ or ‘TheHeterosexualgamer’ would have gotten the same treatment and would have been found to be in violation and forced to be changed. We’ve actually done that to tags like that before.”
I don't really care to much about this topic myself but one thing i wold love to know is if you go by the terms and they are what Microsoft is going by, why is it you see so many gamer tags using 420 in them?
I don't care about a tag one way or the other but if you ban one man for the word gay then how can they allow some other user keep his 420-toker tag?.
News-Source:
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