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According to this Kotaku piece, a UK gamer has had his GamerTag banned from Xbox Live because his name is Richard Gaywood. The GamerTag in question was the hugely inflammatory “RichardGaywood”.
This latest farce comes after a gay man had his GamerTag removed from the service for calling himself “thegayergamer”, a moniker that drew complaints from other “users”.
Microsoft, seriously. Please. Stop being so bloody stupid.
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Blerk said:
White middle America at its Bible-bashing finest!
patlike said:
Insane.
deanimate said:
microsoft won’t be getting any more toast from me.
morriss said:
I wonder if my Gears of War 2-themed new gamertag idea, I_like_it_up_the_Derrick will be banned too?
Psychotext said:
Dick Gay Wood you say?
O Monarca said:
@Psychotext
It’s a really odd coincidence. I don’t doubt the guy, but still… lol
And so these are the modern times…
Blerk said:
My mate from University went to school with a guy called Isaac Hunt.
ecu said:
I went to the wedding of a ‘Mike Hunt’
Michael said:
So, any wor on if they banned TheStraighterGamer yet?
patlike said:
They said previously that they would. No sexual references allowed at all, apparently.
Psychotext said:
Someone tried to make TheHeterosexualGamer but it wouldn’t let them.
I don’t know why they don’t just put all these sorts of words in the banned filter and be done with it. Saves us from more people whining online about stuff we’d have just dealt with if we all weren’t given a a podium to bitch from.