Comments on: So the “greater xbox community” decides what’s offensive?

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:40:55 +0000

I mention the FCC only to show an example of a minority deciding for the majority. I’m not really defending this guy. I didn’t above and I won’t now. I’m just wondering where the line will be drawn.

I have no idea what internet “anonymity” has to do with it. You’re not really anonymous on the internet. The sooner people get that, the better.

By: Mank

Mank — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:55:56 +0000

Well, I didnt mention the FCC in my previous comment. But, I will say that with the advent of how MS, Sony and other online gaming providers are using “social networking” with their games, that they have an obligation of keeping the atmosphere “mainstream” so to speak.

What needs to be addressed here is the anonymity aspect of what internet users, and more importantly “gamers”, have come to expect as the “norm” of relative protection that anonymity has come to provide as an -expectation- by everyone using the internet. That, would be an interesting discussion in its own right, and is the core issue at work here I believe.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:33:17 +0000

So you think the FCC is also democracy in action? It’s been proven it’s not only that, it’s a very small subset of motivated whiners in action.

I’m not saying that’s what’s happening here, I’m saying, where will it stop. If I get enough complaints about not having vowels in my username, will I be required to change my name? Seems very arbitrary at this point.

By: Mank

Mank — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:53:33 +0000

Sigh all you want.

That “greater Xbox community” the CSR refers to is simply democracy in action. The internet is/has been slowly morphing into an entity that mimics our own “mainstream” social values and mechanics. People on the internet(like this gayergamer) have come to -expect- that the “shield of intarweb anonymity” is somehow supposed to protect them from ridicule or prejudice, and in turn Microsoft is somehow supposed to take the high road of “Political Correctness” and protect this individual from his/her own stupidity?

Riiight.