I feel Microsoft is cracking down Way to hard on certain words in their games and in LFG lately. Two examples I have experienced are these. I created a custom gametype in Halo CE with 3 odd balls to spawn on the map. I like to get creative with the gametype description and I put not one ball , not two but three balls. According to the MCC balls is an offensive word I guess. Now onto LFG I was posting for two people to join to do the Whisper Quest in Destiny 2. I put down adults only, mic required, know the route etc. my description was be at 400 power plus. I then got a message saying that was offensive and couldn’t post it. Suprise power is know an offensive word. What’s happening to the gaming word?
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> I feel Microsoft is cracking down Way to hard on certain words in their games and in LFG lately. Two examples I have experienced are these. I created a custom gametype in Halo CE with 3 odd balls to spawn on the map. I like to get creative with the gametype description and I put not one ball , not two but three balls. According to the MCC balls is an offensive word I guess. Now onto LFG I was posting for two people to join to do the Whisper Quest in Destiny 2. I put down adults only, mic required, know the route etc. my description was be at 400 power plus. I then got a message saying that was offensive and couldn’t post it. Suprise power is know an offensive word. What’s happening to the gaming word?
They let people get away with offensive emblems in cod but apparently words like power are offensive.Prime example of Microsoft being too harsh with their definition of offensive is the former streamer naked eli.His name kept getting changed because naked is a bad word apparently,and then he changed it to unclothed eli and also got it forcibly changed.He basically quit xbox because of it
Only thing I can think of with power is that it can be associated with empowerment of a race. I’m sure you know the couple known examples. I will agree though that the censoring can be a little much.
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> > I feel Microsoft is cracking down Way to hard on certain words in their games and in LFG lately. Two examples I have experienced are these. I created a custom gametype in Halo CE with 3 odd balls to spawn on the map. I like to get creative with the gametype description and I put not one ball , not two but three balls. According to the MCC balls is an offensive word I guess. Now onto LFG I was posting for two people to join to do the Whisper Quest in Destiny 2. I put down adults only, mic required, know the route etc. my description was be at 400 power plus. I then got a message saying that was offensive and couldn’t post it. Suprise power is know an offensive word. What’s happening to the gaming word?
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> They let people get away with offensive emblems in cod but apparently words like power are offensive.Prime example of Microsoft being too harsh with their definition of offensive is the former streamer naked eli.His name kept getting changed because naked is a bad word apparently,and then he changed it to unclothed eli and also got it forcibly changed.He basically quit xbox because of it
Had a buddy who was forced to change his GT. I guess Jiggawat123 is offensive despite it being a back to the future reference.
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> > > I feel Microsoft is cracking down Way to hard on certain words in their games and in LFG lately. Two examples I have experienced are these. I created a custom gametype in Halo CE with 3 odd balls to spawn on the map. I like to get creative with the gametype description and I put not one ball , not two but three balls. According to the MCC balls is an offensive word I guess. Now onto LFG I was posting for two people to join to do the Whisper Quest in Destiny 2. I put down adults only, mic required, know the route etc. my description was be at 400 power plus. I then got a message saying that was offensive and couldn’t post it. Suprise power is know an offensive word. What’s happening to the gaming word?
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> > They let people get away with offensive emblems in cod but apparently words like power are offensive.Prime example of Microsoft being too harsh with their definition of offensive is the former streamer naked eli.His name kept getting changed because naked is a bad word apparently,and then he changed it to unclothed eli and also got it forcibly changed.He basically quit xbox because of it
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> Had a buddy who was forced to change his GT. I guess Jiggawat123 is offensive despite it being a back to the future reference.
I’m fine with certain censorship but in these cases its bs
I personally think that Microsoft had good intentions, but they took their censorship way too far. If a game has a mature rating, a few not-so-vulgar words shouldn’t be a big deal. I can understand censoring explicit stuff and curse words, but “balls” isn’t always used in an inappropriate way… so it’s kinda dumb to censor that word.
It’s not that big of a deal when I’m texting friends online, but sometimes it censors out the word completely though it may have been offensive it certainly wasn’t vulgar and I couldn’t text it to him. Eventually, we talked in a party.
It probably wouldn’t be an issue if real people were looking at the words and how they were being used. But this happens so many times in any given moment that it would be impossible to moderate.
I guess whatever program they use to ban words isn’t advanced enough to understand context.
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> It probably wouldn’t be an issue if real people were looking at the words and how they were being used. But this happens so many times in any given moment that it would be impossible to moderate.
> I guess whatever program they use to ban words isn’t advanced enough to understand context.
That’s likely what’s happening. A human probably only looks at it when the GT gets reported.
In this era of being politically correct we loose freedom of speech. It’s really getting out of hand…
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> In this era of being politically correct we loose freedom of speech. It’s really getting out of hand…
Actually, freedom of speech doesn’t apply to online chats through Microsoft services. As Microsoft is a private company, they dictate the rules of the usage of their platform (and can change them at any time, legally). Our rights to use said platform are and always have been contingent on following those rules. “Freedom of speech” only means that the government cannot imprison you or otherwise force you to stop speaking your mind. It doesn’t mean that private companies have to or even should allow people to say whatever they want using their platforms. Just because what’s deemed “OK” to say in chat by Microsoft changes doesn’t mean your rights are being infringed upon.
I was speaking in general terms, if you didn’t get the jest of it.
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> I was speaking in general terms, if you didn’t get the jest of it.
Even in general terms, it’s a false statement. So many people truly believe that PC is the antithesis to freedom of speech because they don’t understand that right. Outrage culture, sensitivity, and other things like that have nothing to do with the 1st amendment. If you call someone at work a racial slur and the police come and arrest you, that’s a violation of free speech. If you just get fired, then that’s not a violation of free speech; that’s just comeuppance. Maybe these days you can get fired for more things than just racial slurs, but it still isn’t a violation of your rights.
It didn’t sound like a “jest” to me. Unless you meant “gist” and used the wrong word.
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> > > > I feel Microsoft is cracking down Way to hard on certain words in their games and in LFG lately. Two examples I have experienced are these. I created a custom gametype in Halo CE with 3 odd balls to spawn on the map. I like to get creative with the gametype description and I put not one ball , not two but three balls. According to the MCC balls is an offensive word I guess. Now onto LFG I was posting for two people to join to do the Whisper Quest in Destiny 2. I put down adults only, mic required, know the route etc. my description was be at 400 power plus. I then got a message saying that was offensive and couldn’t post it. Suprise power is know an offensive word. What’s happening to the gaming word?
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> I’m fine with certain censorship but in these cases its bs
My GT has the initials of the town where I was from. North Delta.
I have a friend from a city called Coquitlam. His name is Russ. His GT was therefore RustyCoq.
Got reported and MS changed it for him to one of the random ones. Then wouldn’t let him pick a new name for free.
Some of their policies are getting to be pretty ridiculous. I miss the days (up to even a few years ago) when things were more laid back and simple innuendo was simply looked at as something to give people a good chuckle. Nowadays, everything has to be taken as offensive and lacking in messages about activism. Users were never given total free speech, which is why things like the f-word were never allowed in gamertags and that was totally cool. But, the line for what’s acceptable and what isn’t is becoming quite restrictive which ends up dividing players and creating anger more than anything.
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> Even in general terms, it’s a false statement. So many people truly believe that PC is the antithesis to freedom of speech because they don’t understand that right. Outrage culture, sensitivity, and other things like that have nothing to do with the 1st amendment. If you call someone at work a racial slur and the police come and arrest you, that’s a violation of free speech. If you just get fired, then that’s not a violation of free speech; that’s just comeuppance. Maybe these days you can get fired for more things than just racial slurs, but it still isn’t a violation of your rights.
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> It didn’t sound like a “jest” to me. Unless you meant “gist” and used the wrong word.
So enlighten me… Racial slurs, where are lines drawn… There are none other than someone saying something that 1 person in this world that doesn’t like, Gets on social media and has their 10 mins of fame and glory at the expense of someone else’s life and longevity. Why do you tell a joke then face total recompense and financial destruction for telling a joke? Free speech… Not any more…
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> So enlighten me… Racial slurs, where are lines drawn… There are none other than someone saying something that 1 person in this world that doesn’t like, Gets on social media and has their 10 mins of fame and glory at the expense of someone else’s life and longevity. Why do you tell a joke then face total recompense and financial destruction for telling a joke? Free speech… Not any more…
Again, free speech does not mean no consequence for what you say. It just means no arrest/imprisonment by the government. You are using the term incorrectly when you say free speech is gone because people face consequences. That’s factually incorrect. Whether or not you agree with PC culture is besides the point. You can think that people overreact or are too sensitive or whatever, but free speech has nothing to do with it. It’s not even semantics; it’s the definition of the right that you are fundamentally missing.
“Free speech” is not “consequence-free speech”.
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> > So enlighten me… Racial slurs, where are lines drawn… There are none other than someone saying something that 1 person in this world that doesn’t like, Gets on social media and has their 10 mins of fame and glory at the expense of someone else’s life and longevity. Why do you tell a joke then face total recompense and financial destruction for telling a joke? Free speech… Not any more…
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> Again, free speech does not mean no consequence for what you say. It just means no arrest/imprisonment by the government. You are using the term incorrectly when you say free speech is gone because people face consequences. That’s factually incorrect. Whether or not you agree with PC culture is besides the point. You can think that people overreact or are too sensitive or whatever, but free speech has nothing to do with it. It’s not even semantics; it’s the definition of the right that you are fundamentally missing.
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> “Free speech” is not “consequence-free speech”.
Freedom of speech is the political right to communicate one’s opinions and ideas. The term freedom of expression is sometimes used synonymously, but includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used. Hmmmm…I guess you didn’t get where I was coming from… Never mind.
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> Freedom of speech is the political right to communicate one’s opinions and ideas. The term freedom of expression is sometimes used synonymously, but includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used. Hmmmm…I guess you didn’t get where I was coming from… Never mind.
The wiki definition also states that common exceptions to freedom of expression include obscenities. And obscenities are defined as any utterance or act that offends the prevalent morality of the time. That last bit is the important part, because as times change, so to does what is considered obscene, and therefore what is a common exception to freedom of expression. Even the definition of FoE under the UN’s human rights laws state that exercising the right comes with “special duties and responsibilities” and may “therefore be subject to certain restrictions”.
I totally get where you’re coming from. But even the definition you cited is not without exceptions to the right. And private institutions have every right to dictate how their own mediums are used. Xbox chat isn’t like standing on a public street corner and spouting off nonsense. It’s like standing on someone’s lawn and spouting off nonsense; and you think the lawn’s owner should just let you stand there doing what you want? It’s easy to hold that lofty ideal until it’s your lawn someone is standing on.
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> > Freedom of speech is the political right to communicate one’s opinions and ideas. The term freedom of expression is sometimes used synonymously, but includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used. Hmmmm…I guess you didn’t get where I was coming from… Never mind.
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> The wiki definition also states that common exceptions to freedom of expression include obscenities. And obscenities are defined as any utterance or act that offends the prevalent morality of the time. That last bit is the important part, because as times change, so to does what is considered obscene, and therefore what is a common exception to freedom of expression. Even the definition of FoE under the UN’s human rights laws state that exercising the right comes with “special duties and responsibilities” and may “therefore be subject to certain restrictions”.
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> I totally get where you’re coming from. But even the definition you cited is not without exceptions to the right. And private institutions have every right to dictate how their own mediums are used. Xbox chat isn’t like standing on a public street corner and spouting off nonsense. It’s like standing on someone’s lawn and spouting off nonsense; and you think the lawn’s owner should just let you stand there doing what you want? It’s easy to hold that lofty ideal until it’s your lawn someone is standing on.
hahaha… Die hard. I just posted the definition to prove the point that you’re obsessed with being right. We are doing a study on extraverts. You’re the best!!