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Gaming => General Gaming & System Wars => Console Gaming Archive => Topic started by: woodyear99 on July 20, 2009, 04:07:44 PM
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Real censorship, did not realize the extent to which they police this...
http://kotaku.com/5317082/frak-to-cleveland-steamer-a-peek-inside-xbox-lives-big-book-of-forbidden-words (http://kotaku.com/5317082/frak-to-cleveland-steamer-a-peek-inside-xbox-lives-big-book-of-forbidden-words)
In the 70s there were just seven words you couldn't say on TV. Today there are thousands you can't say on Xbox Live.
The seven words deemed verboten by the 1973 Federal Communication Commission were scatological, anatomical and, well, nasty. What they all had in common, though, was that pretty much everyone over a certain age knew what they were.
Today's list reaches far beyond that scope, at least for the decency policy of Microsoft's Xbox Live service. They include a fictional obscenity created for television use and sex acts so obscure that even the FCC doesn't get them.
"Our forbidden names list is many thousands now," said Stephen Toulouse, program manager in charge of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live. " Language takes on new meanings daily.
"My team spends a lot of time learning as slang evolves, as the Internet drives new communications. We have to work very hard to be abreast on those sorts of things."
The team also tracks curse words from other languages and keeps an eye on inappropriate phrases that could bubble up from geopolitical issues.