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Microsoft to Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services

posted by janrinok on Wednesday March 28 2018, @09:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the they-are-listening dept.

canopic jug writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 28 2018, @11:13PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 28 2018, @11:13PM (#659745)
    It is no loophole, since there is no law that says you have to use Skype. If you don't like what Microsoft is doing with Skype, there's dozens of other instant messaging apps out there that you can switch to, some of which are Free Software, and further some even offer strong end to end encryption that provides reasonably good guarantees that they can never do what Microsoft is going to do here. Microsoft may still have a monopoly on desktop OSes but they do not have a monopoly on instant messaging software. Far from it.
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  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Thursday March 29 2018, @10:18AM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday March 29 2018, @10:18AM (#659908) Journal

    Microsoft may still have a monopoly on desktop OSes

    Microsoft most certainly does not have a monopoly on the desktop OS market.

    There are many Linux options in the free space, and they have competition in the commercial space from Apple.

  • (Score: 2) by unauthorized on Thursday March 29 2018, @12:41PM

    by unauthorized (3776) on Thursday March 29 2018, @12:41PM (#659935)

    It's not a loophole as much as it wouldn't be a loophole for the state to pay for private armed goons to oppress you.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @02:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 29 2018, @02:41PM (#659981)

    It is no loophole, since there is no law that says you have to use Skype.

    But if Skype gets away with it, then one day the government might demand it for all services, pointing out that it works quite fine for Skype.