Microsoft Hates Lesbians

[madkiller]

TruckOSaurus said:

nightsurge said:

Ant, you are being ridiculous and irrational.  Don't join a conversation if you do not understand.

No gaming service, it appears, is up to SSJ's standards.  A compilation:

PSN Terms of Service:
http://www.us.playstation.com/support/useragreements/13

You may not take any action, or upload, post, stream, or otherwise transmit any content, language, images or sounds in any forum, communication, public profile, or other publicly viewable areas or in the creation of any Online ID that SCEA, in its sole discretion, finds offensive, hateful, or vulgar.  This includes but is not limited to, any content or communication that SCEA in its sole discretion deems racially, ethnically, religiously, or sexually offensive, libelous, defaming, threatening, bullying or stalking.

XFire Terms of Service:
http://www.xfire.com/terms_and_conditions/

You are solely responsible for all activities, acts and omissions that occur in, from, through or under your user name or password. You shall not use, allow, or enable others to use the Service, or knowingly condone use of this Service by others, in any manner that is, attempts to, or is likely to:

* be libelous, defamatory, indecent, vulgar or obscene, pornographic, sexually explicit or sexually suggestive, racially, culturally, or ethnically offensive, harmful, harassing, intimidating, threatening, hateful, objectionable, discriminatory, or abusive, or which may or may appear to impersonate anyone else;

Impulse Terms of Service:
http://www.impulsedriven.net/terms

You agree to not use the Service to:
(a) upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

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(o) promote or advertise sexual or pornographic material or websites;

Oh and SSJ12, segregation is completely different than denial of service.  If the store was simply ONLY denying service to a particular type or ethnicity, then yes it would be illegal, but they still have the right to refuse service to anyone without those confines.

 

 

I see a difference in Microsoft's ToS compared to all the others:

Create a Gamertag , avatar 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 or relate to any of the following: profane words/phrases, topics or content of a sexual nature, hate speech (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, or religious slurs), illegal drugs/controlled substances, or illegal activities;

XBox Live - Of a sexual nature is a really vague term under which stating your sexuality is wrong because it can be interpreted as being of sexual nature.

PSN - sexually offensive With that term stating you're a lesbian doesn't violate the ToS because it's not offensive.

XFire - sexually explicit or sexually suggestive Same as above, lesbian is neither sexual explicit or suggestive.

Impulse - promote or advertise sexual or pornographic material or websites Here again lesbian doesn't cross the lines of the ToS because it's not sexual or pornographic material.

So what I'm saying is that under their ToS, Microsoft was in every right to ban the user but it seems they are the only ones pushing it this far.

 

Actually, you cannot say that lesbian is not sexually offensive because it is to a lot of people. Whether or not any word is sexually offensive is up to every person themselves. If someone finds it offensive then they have every right under the TOS to report that person, that is the entire purpose of the TOS and reporting abilities.