Microsoft Hates Lesbians

[TruckOSaurus]

madkiller said:

TruckOSaurus said:

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.

 

Like you said what is sexually offensive is different for everyone so it's up to the companies who run those services to define "sexually offensive" and there's no way those companies can get away with defining lesbian as sexually offensive.