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Microsoft’s Stephen Toulouse has explained the reasoning behind the banning of GamerTag “thegayergamer” on his blog. The company deemed it was in breech of terms and conditions, basically.
“Terms of Use clearly disallow content of a sexual nature,” he said. The clause in Live’s user terms states:
“[a member may not] Create a Gamertag 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.”
Full thing through the link.
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Blerk said:
Surely saying that you’re “gay” doesn’t automatically imply something of a sexual nature? It’s a statement of who you are, not what you do. Would they have banned TheChristianGamer?
Gay isn’t explicit, it’s not sexual innuendo, it’s not a profane word. I’m not seeing how it breaks their terms and conditions, tbh.
morriss said:
Me either.
Tonka said:
Gay still means happy right? Right?
Blerk said:
You will not be happy. Microsoft will not allow it. No, you must be gritty and miserable. And clad in space armour. And oily. And sweaty. A holding a gigantic weapon that in no way resembles a penis. In a confined space with half a dozen similar men.
Tonka said:
That’s what they meant when they said
“We will revolutionise the way people think about having fun.” at E3 all those years ago.
Psychotext said:
@Blerk: Tell me more!
Blerk said:
Are you almost there?
Tonka said:
I have reported you to the Internet. You will have your mouths washed.
Psychotext said:
wz said:
Duh, it’s not so that you can pretend not to have chosen that name for a specific purpose. And I guess playing dumb now does not help much.
Why don’t leave all that religion/sexuality/whatever stuff out the door and enjoy gaming?
PS: Flame me, call me names, I don’t care. Personally, I don’t care 2 seconds about what you call yourself (neither what you call me, as I just said). But if you can’t stand the flaming, don’t bait it.
Michael said:
“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.”
Bullshit.
Psychotext said:
Only takes a couple of days to see if they’re lying or not.