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Microsoft to censor
Topic Started: Mar 27 2018, 04:34 PM (79 Views)
George K
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http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/03/27/microsoft-ban-offensive-language-xbox-skype-office-account/
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Microsoft is cracking down on what people say while using their services online. According to a new services agreement written by the company, the tech giant is planning to ban accounts that use “offensive language” and will go through your private data to “investigate” users.

In a March 1 release, Microsoft is warning customers using Office, Xbox, Skype, and other products that the company is prohibiting offensive language and inappropriate content starting on May 1. “Don’t publicly display or use the Services to share inappropriate content or material (involving, for example, nudity, bestiality, pornography, offensive language, graphic violence, or criminal activity),” Microsoft warns in a portion of their new codes of conduct.

Microsoft also added that the company plans on “investigating” users who are accused of violating the new policy and will block content from being sent to other people. “When investigating alleged violations of these Terms, Microsoft reserves the right to review Your Content in order to resolve the issue,” the new policy states.

Internet privacy and civil rights advocates are already speaking out against the Microsoft service agreement; calling the upcoming policy an attack on free speech. “Offensive language is fairly vague. Offensive to whom? What my granny might find offensive and what I might find offensive could be vastly different,” Ms. Smith of CSO Online wrote.

Civil rights activist and law student Jonathan Corbett added that Microsoft’s May 1 agreement is just an excuse to police people’s behavior, even in private. “I can’t use Skype to have an adult video call with my girlfriend? I can’t use OneDrive to back up a document that says ‘f–k’ in it? If I call someone a mean name in Xbox Live, not only will they cancel my account, but also confiscate any funds I’ve deposited in my account?” Corbett questions in a blog post.

Digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues that Microsoft’s hard-line policy stems from Congress passing two new sex trafficking bills. The Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and the Stop Enabling Sex-Trafficking Act (SESTA) holds platforms responsible for users’ speech, illegally shared content, and anything connected to sex trafficking.

EFF claims SESTA/FOSTA “silences online speech by forcing Internet platforms to censor their users.” The Department of Justice has also warned that the bills raise “serious constitutional concern.”
As if you needed another reason to hate Facebook Google Microsoft.
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Axtremus
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FWIW, ZetaBoards also censors contents posted by users like you and I. See http://www.zetaboards.com/tos/ , in particular, Section 3.1. Those are the terms for which we all clicked "Agree" when we signed up to post here.
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George K
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Mar 27 2018, 04:48 PM
FWIW, ZetaBoards also censors contents posted by users like you and I me (FIFY). See http://www.zetaboards.com/tos/ , in particular, Section 3.1. Those are the terms for which we all clicked "Agree" when we signed up to post here.
Have your posts been censored?

http://www.zetaboards.com/tos/
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Racist!

It will be interesting to see how, and if, Microsoft implements these policies.
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Copper
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How long before they censor any rhetoric that supports abortion or gun control?
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To be fair - games like Call of Duty on Xbox Live are full of 14 year-olds who apparently have had sex with multiple opposing players' mothers in almost every match, and they also seem to think that most of the opposing players are black.
Edited by xenon, Mar 27 2018, 07:27 PM.
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Of course fantasy killing is not only okay but the only way to win on many Xbox games but other forms of behavior are absolutely not permitted. :lol2:
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George K
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Mar 27 2018, 04:48 PM
FWIW, ZetaBoards also censors contents posted by users like you and I. See http://www.zetaboards.com/tos/ , in particular, Section 3.1. Those are the terms for which we all clicked "Agree" when we signed up to post here.
As far as you know, does Zetaboards have people who will go through posts and "investigate" offensive or inappropriate posts? THat's what the CBS story claims.

https://avn.com/business/articles/legal/microsoft-bans-nudity-offensive-languageis-fosta-to-blame-769708.html

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Last week, several online porn performers who use Google Drive to store and distribute their adult content files reported that the service had suddenly and without warning blocked or deleted their files, posing a threat to their income streams.
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