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posted by chromas on Wednesday May 22 2019, @02:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the yo-mama dept.

CNet:

Last month, Microsoft released Community Standards for Xbox, a set of rules published on its site that it called a "roadmap for contributing to this incredible, globe-spanning community." One topic addressed is what players can't say to other players, including racial and homophobic slurs.

The company has also launched a "For Everyone" page on its website, where parents can learn about how safety and family settings work on its console. That includes making it easier for parents to create "child" and "teen" accounts that have stricter safety settings like limiting the types of games they can access and how long they can play.

At last, relief for older gamers from the terror of trash-talking 13-yr olds!


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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday May 22 2019, @10:33AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday May 22 2019, @10:33AM (#846132) Homepage
    but all such filtering is doomed to failure. People will use imaginitive misspellings to avoid the filter, it will basically be whack-a-mole. And when misspellings are banned, they will simply repurpose normal words - compare the "OK" = "White Power" hand signal controversy.
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