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Microsoft to ban ‘Offensive Language’ and monitor private accounts for it
- meri_dian 9y agoTech companies are being pushed into implementing top down, centralized solutions to handle "offensive" content, however that's defined. This is problematic, because what's offensive to one is not offensive to another, and a centralized approach will never account for the resulting vagaries in interpretation of "offensive", outside of illegal content. Therefore, a distributed approach is much more appropriate and effective. Users should have the ability to block users or content they don't like. This gives users the ability to protect themselves while avoiding all the pitfalls of centralized authoritative censorship.
- himom 9y agoSkype is an old trailblazer. There’s so many better competitors, they’re essentially irrelevant. Uninstalled. Move on.
- metaloha 9y agoThe text they quoted from MS specifically uses the word "publicly displayed" - how does that translate into their example of a couple doing sexy time on Skype breaking those terms?