Microsoft, which purchased Skype in 2011, will soon increase its monitoring of Skype and other services. Starting May 1st they will further examine ostensibly private communicatiosn for 'offensive language' and 'inappropriate content' for the purpose of blocking. The changes are rolled out as part of a new terms of service advisory for the company's many services.
Microsoft will ban 'offensive language' and 'inappropriate content' from Skype, Xbox, Office and other services on May 1, claiming it has the right to go through your private data to 'investigate.'
From IDG's CSO : Microsoft to ban 'offensive language' from Skype, Xbox, Office and other services.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @02:48PM (2 children)
Well, I guess people in some village in Austria will have trouble telling others where they live. [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Thursday March 29 2018, @05:22PM
That's not what's considered offensive by Microsoft or by the Security Department.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday March 29 2018, @06:04PM
Or worse, they screw it up and do the same thing to the residents of Scunthorpe, UK [wikipedia.org].
Then there's the whole question of euphemisms. Will sci-fi swear words like "smeghead", "frell", and "frak" be excluded from the Newspeak Dictionary or not?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.