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[ggrobot]

A woman known only as

\'Theresa\' has stated that she was harassed and then finally banned from Xbox Live because she identified herself as a lesbian in her gamer profile. When she appealed to Microsoft, she says they told her that other gamers found her sexual orientation \'offensive.\' She wrote:

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[Koogle]

" What's your opinion? "

...that your opinion is ignorant- ya big GAY!

and big boo hiss to MS for being teh uber suck once again! .. banning the gamer paying to use its xbox live shite service! and getting harrased because they choose to put lesbian in there tag so fucking what, how pathetic and lame, just do the easy thing eh MS..... anyway looking at MS retarded terms and conditions they might aswel just assign gamers a "PLAYER <insert number>" and censor individualality it might cause offense. Afteral its just about the gaming, this whole personality and expression humans have just gets in the way of making more money from stupid and immature people.

[Futto]

In some more enlightened countries, what Microsoft did would be illegal due to anti-discrimination laws.

[Nosferatu]

How the hell is pointing out your orientation "offensive"? If someone is flooding you with messages like "C'mon, you're gay, aren't you?" or "Oh come on, don't be shy, admit it" or some other annoying shit, then THAT's offensive and deserves a ban.

Saw that she's a lesbian, realized you're hetero -- now go along, play your game, have fun, realize that people are all different!

[Sabot]

Wow, like M$ has opened it's doors to being sued big time! Put it this way, a tag is just that, if someone calls themselves 'death angel' for eg, then that's a blatant reference to the anti-christ or devil worshipping etc,etc. But it's not, it's a virtual world.
If someone calls themselves a lesbian, so what, it certainly keep the little creeps away from them! -maybe they want that? Whatever, there are NO sexual overtones other than gender; straight,gay,lesbian and bi. Wow and i thought M$ was soooo mature. Obviously not.
Bedtime Mr. Gates said the nanny state

[Ozieo]

Obviously, and to noone's surprise, Japan is a more mature country than the States.

[torracat]

She should not have been banned. that was a punk-coward move by whoever did it. On the other hand. there is nothing wrong with posting the info she did. But just because you can does not always mean you should. I think it was stupid for her to do that in this environment. she kind of asked for it. not that I think they were right for harassing her. the were dead wrong. but if you walk into a hole, expect to fall in it.....

[Koogle]