So I'm going through my subs on YT and I stumble on a video by AlphaOmegaSin talking about this. He posted the source link, so here it is for you:
http://www.vg247.com/2013/11/25/xbox-one-microsoft-is-reportedly-banning-users-from-using-skype-and-upload-studio-for-swearing/comment-page-1/#comment-566888
But in a nutshell, Microsoft is levying bans on XB1 users apparently for using profanity either on Skype and in their Upload Studio feature. An infraction on either nets you a 24 hour time out where you're unable to use either or. MS is being contacted on this by the source site, so I suppose we'll hear something more detailed...or not.
Now to my two cents on the topic...as if EVERYONE didn't see this coming? First MS talks about how they wouldn't be monitoring users. So then how the hell do you suppose they're able to know when you're going all potty mouth playing a game? Even the most diehard MS fanboy has to admit this is some next level fucked up shit right here...but this is how it begins, and before you know it all those policies that they said they weren't going to be doing will be slipped back in eventually.
What it is I'm reading though, amazingly, is that even if this is blatant disregard of 1st Ammendment rights...it falls under their terms of service and might possibly not even be able to be reversed or changed! So pay $500 for a console, $50 a year to play online and you STILL have to conduct yourself how they want you to, or you get "blue screened"?
The defecation has hit the oscillation.
http://www.vg247.com/2013/11/25/xbox-one-microsoft-is-reportedly-banning-users-from-using-skype-and-upload-studio-for-swearing/comment-page-1/#comment-566888
But in a nutshell, Microsoft is levying bans on XB1 users apparently for using profanity either on Skype and in their Upload Studio feature. An infraction on either nets you a 24 hour time out where you're unable to use either or. MS is being contacted on this by the source site, so I suppose we'll hear something more detailed...or not.
Now to my two cents on the topic...as if EVERYONE didn't see this coming? First MS talks about how they wouldn't be monitoring users. So then how the hell do you suppose they're able to know when you're going all potty mouth playing a game? Even the most diehard MS fanboy has to admit this is some next level fucked up shit right here...but this is how it begins, and before you know it all those policies that they said they weren't going to be doing will be slipped back in eventually.
What it is I'm reading though, amazingly, is that even if this is blatant disregard of 1st Ammendment rights...it falls under their terms of service and might possibly not even be able to be reversed or changed! So pay $500 for a console, $50 a year to play online and you STILL have to conduct yourself how they want you to, or you get "blue screened"?
The defecation has hit the oscillation.