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Xbox Live Sadly No Place For Lesbian Gamers [Xbox Live]
Kotaku —
... gamer Teresa found herself on the receiving end of a ban from the service for a surprising reason. She identified herself as a lesbian in her Live profile. That resulted in a ban from the service after her Xbox Live peers complained about her profile, according to a letter to the Consumerist . It's not like we haven't heard this before. ...
Microsoft imposes online "don't tell" policy on homosexuals
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... Identifying your sexuality in your Xbox Live profile is "offensive," according to Microsoft. When one lesbian complained about harassment, it suspended her account. ...
Yikes: Microsoft bans lesbian from Xbox Live because her sexual orientation is ‘offensive’ to others
CrunchGear —
... Chris Matthews, “Oh, God.” It seems a woman was recently banned from Xbox Live because her sexual orientation—she’s a lesbian—has been deemed “offensive” by Microsoft. Let’s see how long it takes for Microsoft to “reconsider” this ban. ...
Xbox An Unfriendly Place For Lesbians?
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Consumerist follows the story of "Teresa," who was harassed by other players on Xbox because she identified herself as a lesbian. Eventually she was booted from the network because other players found her homosexuality "offensive." ...
Microsoft announces improvements to Xbox Live
Tech Digest —
... Lastly, there's going to be some sort of weird quiz show thing called 1 vs 100. Over to Microsoft to explain it: "a completely exclusive, completely interactive television quiz show game giving gamers the chance to compete against each other and win real prizes". Is anyone even remotely excited about that? Overall, it's a decent upgrade to the system and a 'thankyou' to owners, but I don't think it's going to be selling any new consoles over this. Especially when the company is banning people who identify themselves as a lesbian. ...
M&M’s World Headlines: Feb 26, 2009
p2pnet news —
... of the provincial consumer law with an ad targeting children under 13 years old.
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Hacking contest offers $10,000 for iPhone exploit The Register
An annual hacker competition planned for next month has setting its sights on Apple’s iPhone and four other smart phones in a contest that will pay cash prizes of $10,000 to anyone who can break in to the mobile devices.
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Identifying Yourself As A Lesbian Gets You Banned On XBOX Live Consumerist ...
Consumerist: Self-identified lesbian banned from Xbox Live
Joystiq —
... The Consumerist reports that an Xbox Live user identified only as Teresa was supposedly banned from Xbox Live for identifying herself as a lesbian. Teresa said that she identified her sexual orientation in her profile, which resulted in harassment from other ...
Don't ask, don't tell: Microsoft bans lesbian Xbox Live user
Ars Technica —
... "I had a similar incident," the woman wrote to the Consumerist, after reading about a man banned for having the word "gay" in his profile. "Only my account was suspended because I had said in my profile that I was a lesbian. I was harassed by several players, 'chased' to different maps/games to get away from their harassment. They followed me into the games and told all the other players to turn me in because they didn't want to see that crap or their kids to see that crap." ...
Microsoft admits to, defends banning Lesbian Xbox Live user
Ars Technica —
... "I had a similar incident," the woman wrote to the Consumerist, after reading about a man banned for having the word "gay" in his profile. "Only my account was suspended because I had said in my profile that I was a lesbian. I was harassed by several players, 'chased' to different maps/games to get away from their harassment. They followed me into the games and told all the other players to turn me in because they didn't want to see that crap or their kids to see that crap." ...
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