There's a bit of contention about the interwebs regarding freedom of speech and improper, insensitive conduct, which came to an embarrassing point for Microsoft, who enforce the latter on their Xbox Live service, when they banned a user whose profile listed his location as "Fort Gay".
The thing is, said user, Josh Moore, actually lives in Fort Gay, West Virginia in the United States, and according to a report over at
V3D, it took some convincing to get the mega publisher to realise he was speaking the truth, though he did suffer his account being banned and Microsoft being pretty narky about it before they realised their mistake.
"I figured, I'll explain to them, 'Look in my account. Fort Gay is a real place'," Moore says. "I told him, 'Google it — 25514!', he [just] said, 'I can't help you'."
The full story can be found on the above link.
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Posted 01:00pm 09/9/10
One of the key features of a microsoft console is parental control and how family friendly live is (infact thats a sales point for live)
What the gayest thing about all of this is the gay hoops he had to jump through to get the gay error fixed.
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I'm sure its already been made.
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Was not expecting that.
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Posted 06:36pm 09/9/10
I've put my MSN status to similar things in the past, usually when something in msn or hotmail screws up or they add a feature I don't like.
Yeah, if it was Apple they'd have told him to move to somewhere more normal sounding.
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lol if it was apple there response would be "deal with it"
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Posted 10:33pm 09/9/10
Also there is an ice cream called "gaytime", tastes good though believe it or not
I wonder if gay is in the BC2 swear filter?? I know if you type "damn" the swear filter picks it up.. wtf shizzle gay?!?!?!?
Posted 11:49pm 09/9/10
Or at least I think it still is, it was in the beta, can't say I've ever said gay in the final game... dammit their plan worked!
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or "you're not banned, you're just holding your controller wrong".
Yeah those gaytime ice creams are pretty damn tasty but nowhere near as tasty as I remember them being. I swear they've changed :(
Posted 12:38am 10/9/10
Same, I asked an internode admin once and he said some bulls*** about there servers being family friendly and open to everyone. I then asked why they have so many nazi rules and he didn't reply.
Posted 12:45am 10/9/10
The line from 30 Rock "it wouldn't be a Lemon party without old D***" comes to mind :)
Posted 12:49am 10/9/10
The worst part is it also filters out normal words with bad words in them, like back in cs you couldn't say cs_assault because it had "ass" in it.
I wonder how long until MS bans my live account for having a "bad name" then if they're so damn strict about it, unless they haven't caught on yet. :ninja:
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