Gays on Xbox LIVE

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as well as predatorial behavior.

There's recently been much controversy involving homosexuals expressing their sexual orientation on the internet gaming network, Xbox LIVE. One gamer, aptly named "theGAYERGamer," tried to log on one night, only to learn his gamertag was banned(1) for upsetting other Xbox LIVE users. The Microsoft worker Stephen Toulouse's website(2) states that "We recieved a complaint on the Gamertag and determined that it did indeed contain sexual innuendo. Now granted, there could be an argument that the text is not pejorative to homosexuality and should therefore be allowed." Another user on Xbox LIVE tried an experiment to see how homosexuals were treated on Xbox LIVE, and posted the results on Youtube(3). To top it all off, Microsoft, while claiming a name containing the word gay is an infraction on their Terms of Service, will do nothing to accounts such as "Straight r8pe(Straight rape)," "Straighter," "BaLL JuiCE33," and "Tea Baggah(A sexual act)". As of this writing, all GamerTags are still active. This poll is to see how many people believe that the gaming community is unfairly, and unjustly, biased towards homosexual gamers. (1) http://kotaku.com/390593/thegayergamer-gets-xbox-live-ban-microsoft-explains (2) http://www.stepto.com/default.aspx (3) http://youtube.com/watch?v=6alOnuN-wCY

This poll was created on 2008-05-18 00:30:31 by Rhasiir