Microsoft Responds To Banning Controversy
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February 27th, 2009
The gay community has been up in arms after a female gamer who identified herself as a lesbian in her online profile was harassed by other gamers and then banned from the service by Microsoft until she changed her gamer tag. Yesterday Microsoft had refused to comment on this issue, but apparently now they’re ready.
Microsoft has announced that the ban had nothing to do with the fact that she was a lesbian, but was only because of the sexual content in the gamertag. Microsoft is pointing out that in the user agreement is says that gamers cannot “create a gamertag or use text in other profile fields that include comments that look, sound like, stand for, hint at, abbreviate, or insinuate content of a potentially sexual nature.”
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