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Master Archivist  Posts: 9230 Joined: 5 Mar 2009     | The man used the words "super, super" in a sentence...wonder if he gets that way about his company hand bags. Anyway, good PR move for microsoft after a retarded lapse in social knowledge. |
Beat Writer Posts: 225 Joined: 29 Mar 2009     | why, that's XBL's rep being pro-anti-pro-ghey (you'll get why I said that word) |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 97 Joined: 16 Jan 2009   | I'll be GLAAD when this whole shebang is over. *crickets* I'm here all night folks. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1107 Joined: 9 Mar 2008     |
+10 to WIT. @topic: Why is Microsoft being so hush hush over the details of their meeting? I know it's probably for some boring legal department reason, but it doesn't look good. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1411 Joined: 1 Apr 2009     | They could just try smacktard fumigation on XBL. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1051 Joined: 3 Dec 2007   | We'll, I'm sure that this meeting means the end of all prejudice against gay and lesbian gamers on Xbox Live. Not. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1072 Joined: 2 Feb 2009    | Hahahaha. Ahh well, I suppose they have to try to appear like their fixing it. Pretty obviously a PR move though. |
Muckraker  Posts: 320 Joined: 20 Sep 2008    | About time a tech and gaming company addressed this. I'm surprised GLAAD, the ASACP, the JDL and ASACP haven't pounced all over the online gaming world because of all the bigots and pedophiles that roam about. There should be guilds for those groups. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 648 Joined: 4 Mar 2009  | it is good that ms apologised for there momentary lapse of reasoning ,being a straight gamer i don't care what your sexuality is just play the game and have fun ,i have no hatred of gays or lesbians they have rights and feelings too |
BANNED  Posts: 325 Joined: 10 Dec 2008     | That sucks. I thought Microsoft would finally choose to make the right choice...which is to tell them to shut the hell up and get over it or don't play. User was banned for: 10 and 15 year old sent home from school for wearing a shirt that said the wrong things. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4928 Joined: 22 Feb 2009     | I'm more worried about why Master Chief and his pals are in the picture. Something Bungie isn't telling us? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2499 Joined: 6 Apr 2009    | Why? Why is this necessary? 1) no one should be banned for revealing their orientation 2) meeting with GLAAD sounds like a stupid way to solve things. |
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That's part of their new PR move to strengthen relations with the Gay community! User was banned for: Why do Many Girls take Pictures of Themselves?. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1602 Joined: 26 Apr 2009  | Man, first they censor gay words and swears on Home, now this. It makes me wonder if Nintendo is gonna follow through next. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1206 Joined: 7 May 2009  | I didn't realize the gay community was being discriminated against on Live. A bit childish on the part of Microsoft. |
Muckraker  Posts: 286 Joined: 11 Aug 2008     |
But then they would lose at least half of their customers. Woo! Anyway i thought this was whole ghey/lesbian deal was over with? |
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Both are quite old news, and personally I think the censoring swear words was a little more justified (my bias with Sony notwithstanding at this time!) even though one or two of the words were silly to censor (Seriously, everytime someone said "Hello" with the standard messages it would come out as "****o", I thought everyone was saying "Fucko" for the past week!) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1684 Joined: 7 Feb 2008  | Did anyone else think Glad bags and that old white haired guy when looking at this article? |
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Microsoft Meets With GLAAD Over Xbox Live Issues
In the wake of recent high-profile homophobic missteps, Major Nelson has revealed that Microsoft recently met with representatives of GLAAD to talk about all that icky gay stuff.
Microsoft has had a rough ride of things lately, so to speak; in February, the company issued an apology after a lesbian gamer had her Xbox Live account suspended for revealing her sexual orientation in her profile. A month later it was sued by a former Lionhead Studios employee who claimed he suffered long-term harassment over his sexual orientation, a case which was settled out of court in April.
But lest anyone get the idea that Microsoft has something against "the gays," Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb and Xbox Live Policy Director Stephen Toulouse revealed in a recent podcast that the company has met with members of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to discuss matters relating to gay gamers on Xbox Live.
"I can't talk about what we discussed specifically except to say that we provided them with a lot of information about what we do today, why we do what we do and how we do it," Toulouse said. "And then we asked them the question, 'How can we do this better?' And we have some ideas. Here are some ideas. That dialog was super, super helpful. I think it was a great engagement. Justin and Jeffrey who came out from GLAAD really appreciated the effort that we're putting into it - and had great ideas, like they brought up some stuff we hadn't thought of."
Toulouse said GLAAD was a "great group to work with" and seemed very enthusiastic about the results of the meeting. "The GLAAD folk totally understand a variety of things, they're really great to work with. They want to enable communities to be safer. They just want to enable communities to be safer - that's what my team tries to do as well, so it was a great thing." He added that Microsoft would have more to say about the meeting with GLAAD and Xbox Live policies in the future.
Source: GayGamer
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