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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: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday March 29 2018, @12:48AM (9 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 29 2018, @12:48AM (#659790) Journal

    but none of the people you want offended will get it

    Unless the people you want offended are also educated, that is. (back to you, aristarchus, if you want to add something about the advantages of an education)
    For everybody else... well... there's always Rule 34.

    (grin)

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    Seriously speaking, this gets to show there's no way in hell there's a way to stop offensive (or any kind of) speech, whatever MS or the govts will be trying .
    It never happened even under communist regimes.
    Proof: "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday March 29 2018, @01:12AM (6 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday March 29 2018, @01:12AM (#659800) Journal

    Proof: "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra Stonewall"

    Back at you, c0lo! FTFY!

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Thursday March 29 2018, @01:24AM (5 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 29 2018, @01:24AM (#659803) Journal

      You aren't serious in a "Seriously speaking" section.

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      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday March 29 2018, @08:13AM (4 children)

        by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday March 29 2018, @08:13AM (#659884) Journal

        Am I to infer that you do not get the reference? Or am I to ascertain that we should leave Star Trek to the Star Trek? My comment was very serious, in light of attempts to claim that discrimination is a religious freedom. Shirley you know about Stonewall [wikipedia.org], and I do not refer to the Jackson one.

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:23AM (1 child)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:23AM (#659895) Journal

          Am I to infer that you do not get the reference?

          You can more than interested, you can be sure of that.
          I'll try parsing again in the new context.

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          • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:26AM

            by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:26AM (#659896) Journal

            s/interested/inferring (shitty autocorrect)

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        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:43AM (1 child)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:43AM (#659898) Journal

          in light of attempts to claim that discrimination is a religious freedom

          I still don't get it. Where's - in this thread - that claim that you mention?
          And what's the relation between a claim that discrimination is a religious freedom and the Stonewall event?
          Further, I'm also lost in regards to the relation between the said claim and/or Stonewall to the 'Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra' meaning (without the culture and the stories stories behind the allegories, the language remains indecipherable) - case at the current point, your reference to Stonewall in the context of my reply.

          Would the culture be shared between the two parties in the dialogue, they could exchange info or insults without MS (or govt as a snooping party) understand or intervene to stop an offense in progress.

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          • (Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Friday March 30 2018, @08:31AM

            by aristarchus (2645) on Friday March 30 2018, @08:31AM (#660312) Journal

            You have made your point, c0lo, they cannot censor us if they cannot understand us. Right now I have an enormous Yellow Rubber Duckie and a Floating Letter N anchored in the Lagoon.

            Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Reziac on Thursday March 29 2018, @04:31AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Thursday March 29 2018, @04:31AM (#659846) Homepage

    "Shaka, when the sewers backed up."

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  • (Score: 2) by OrugTor on Thursday March 29 2018, @04:24PM

    by OrugTor (5147) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 29 2018, @04:24PM (#660028)

    modded you up for the Trek reference.