iBotModz_Bot Posted September 8, 2010 Report Posted September 8, 2010 From seattlepi.com:Microsoft Corp. and the chief rules enforcer for Xbox Live are apologizing to a small West Virginia town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating the online gaming service's code of conduct by publicly declaring he's from Fort Gay - a name the company considered offensive. The town's name is real. But when Moore tried to tell Seattle-based Microsoft and the enforcement team at Xbox Live, they wouldn't take his word for it. Or Google it. Or check the U.S. Postal Service website for a ZIP code. Instead, they suspended his gaming privileges for a few days until Moore could convince them the location in his profile, "fort gay WV," wasn't a joke or a slur: It's an actual community of about 800 in Wayne County, along West Virginia's western border with Kentucky. Stephen Toulouse, director of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live said that was a miscommunication."Someone took the phrase 'fort gay WV' and believed that the individual who had that was trying to offend, or trying to use it in a pejorative manner," Toulouse said. "Unfortunately, one of my people agreed with that. ... When it was brought to my attention, we did revoke the suspension." Full Story: seattlepi.comhttp://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4v1kji2fkPY8L2C1IsMHSnDvgwM/0/dihttp://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4v1kji2fkPY8L2C1IsMHSnDvgwM/1/di View the full article
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