Xbox Live Bans Lesbian Player
Log on to Xbox live and you’re likely to find a whole lot of offensive content. Not in the games, but coming from some of the players. It’s a bit of a cliche but there are racial slurs, insults and epithets flying wildly. It’s possible to report players for these kinds of comments, but with their continual presence it doesn’t seem like Microsoft is doing much to curtail this sort of activity. They do have a rather harsh policy for some sort of ‘offensive activities‘.
An Xbox Live member (well, former member) named Teresa was banned for saying someone was a lesbian: herself. When she found herself banned from the service she contacted Microsoft she was informed that other members found her sexual orientation offensive and that the ban would be lifted. Despite reporting harassment from other players regarding this issue, no action was taken on her behalf.
Unfortunately I don’t think Microsoft would accept arguments of bigotry, intolerance and ignorance as offensive, so the people who reported this unfortunate woman will go unpunished.