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

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, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 28 2018, @11:33PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 28 2018, @11:33PM (#659757)

    Dear Microsoft (Language) Police Force Team,
        It is with great pleasure and unbridled relish that we have, PER YOUR REQUEST, purged your Dear(TM) and Good(TM) Name(TM) from our minds, servers, workstations and premises. Please do not send unsolicited gifts and bribes to us to try and win us back.
        Yours ..|.. sincerely
        Users with Brains

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  • (Score: 1) by tftp on Thursday March 29 2018, @12:14AM (3 children)

    by tftp (806) on Thursday March 29 2018, @12:14AM (#659778) Homepage
    What is the percentage of users with brains who want and are able to free themselves from the ms clutches?
    • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Thursday March 29 2018, @12:32AM (2 children)

      by Justin Case (4239) on Thursday March 29 2018, @12:32AM (#659785) Journal

      Pretty near 100%?

      • (Score: 1) by tftp on Thursday March 29 2018, @12:51AM

        by tftp (806) on Thursday March 29 2018, @12:51AM (#659791) Homepage
        Sorry, - relative to the whole population.
      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday March 29 2018, @01:56AM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 29 2018, @01:56AM (#659813) Journal

        To many zeros in your estimate. The real number might be around 10% of the entire population. "users with brains who want and are able to free themselves" To qualify, a user must have the intelligence and the savvy to even use computers at all. Then the user must desire to be free of Microsoft. And, finally, he must be able to free himself. Real life experience suggests that maybe 10% of the population in general qualifies.

        For the most part, those who have "freed" themselves of Microsoft by migrating to Android have simply leaped into another form of bondage. Besides, how many of those Android users install Microsoft apps onto their devices? In reality, their escape from Microsoft OS's was just an accident, because Microsoft failed to get into the phone and mobile device market in a timely manner.