Game site in trouble
They have caused offence in trying to ban offensive speech!
"Sony's Home has had a rocky start. Server issues, lack of compelling content, and a somewhat hostile environment have all added up to make the online service more of a PR problem than Sony likely expected. The latest issue? Sony has banned words such as "gay," "bi-sexual," and "Jew" from the service. If you've played a game online... well, ever... you know why such words would go on the black list. But supporters of gay rights, or gamers who practice the Jewish faith, have taken issue with these words becoming negative labels.
"I can understand if they're filtering out profanity, but if feel like it's discrimination," Michael Marsh, a gamer who wanted to set up a gay/straight alliance in Home, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "By blocking a word like 'gay,' which is a preferred term by the gay community, you're encouraging it as a bad word." Even more ludicrous is the blocking of the word "Hello," which contains the word "Hell."
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5 comments:
I ran into something similar in another game I played... the word "balloon" got filtered out because it contained "ball."
1st: It is not a game. Rather a social networking site.
2nd: It is still in a testing mode, Beta, and a lot of words are on the Ban list, because the techs want to spend more time working out computer errors than answering or investigating terms of service violations
3rd: It's FREE! It's NEW! and Sony knows they have not perfected it.
If you don't like it try 2nd Life, Facebook, MySpace, or the continously crashing Wii and Xbox360 versions
Anon # 2...social networking or not...bad service even in Beta form is still bad service.
Way back when, George Carlin gave us the Seven Dirty Words, now every time you turn around we add to the list...PC craziness.
Kaze
Welcome to the world of political correctness. It's intent is to not only change our language, but to "adjust" our freedoms so that they comply with the Left's idea of freedom. (ie: if we approve, you're free to say or do it!)
PC, like terrorism, gets stronger as the people get weaker.
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