You're a dam homophone. How about you put some caulk in your schist crack.

Or just train it.

"Go the yourself!"
"No, you go the yourself!"

I await all articles being bleeped out, followed by the letter 'e' and the number 8.

> ... make up proxies for bad words.

You smeghead! That will never frak'n [wikipedia.org] work! /s

I think we solved this problem already. I don't get much v1agra spam any more.

Many games don't have chat because they can't stop people saying stuff which takes a E rated game up to 18+. For example they might only offer a selection of canned statements rather than letting you say arbitrary things.

Players can also censor each other already, with the mute option.

The fact that voice chat is so universally bad also means that a lot of people just don't use it. For them it's dead already. So they might now be able to use it, which I'm sure Microsoft prefers. I expect Microsoft will make

I don't give much of a shit about so called "foul language" but when some pissant little shit wont stop with the SUCK MY ________ YOU DIRTY ______ SUCKER every 15 seconds I'll just go play something else. MS knows I'm an adult with money in my pocket, and are trying to address this issue to keep me in the ecosystem.

This is capitalism, not "kowtowing to a bunch of petty wannabe language dictators."

Take your outrage back to your console gaming cesspool while you still can. Adults are talking.

All of these complaints can be made about spam filters too.

It's censorship. Filters than can remove v1agra sales pitches can be used to remove political speech. It's about unwanted adverts, not hate speech.

In fact I imagine that anti-spam technology is already deployed in China to police social networks. Throw in some ad-blocking tech to prevent people posting illegal memes too.

There's a difference. It's not trying to police what you can say. It's me having the ability to police what I hear.

If I don't want to hear your damn, shit, and fuck every time you die then I can set my level to "Rated G" and you can rage on while I still get to participate in voice chat. The alternative right now is that I don't join voice chat at all, but then I don't get any tactical benefits of being on voice chat.

I'm curious to see how well they do since TV broadcasts have a delay to get the bleep/si

My guess is so they can lower the ESRB ratings for online games, to reach larger audiences.

It stems from puritan rules related to making sexuality and nudity and bodily functions taboos. Which makes as much sense as making cooking and eating taboos. Or sleeping and resting.

Which, I think, only exist as a tool to gain power over people. Since it specifically makes a taboo out of the one thing literally every human does and wants to do and has to do, as without it, humanity would literally go extinct.
So that *everyone* can be a "sinner". So that *everyone* has to "repent" and follow some crazy proc

A teacher explained it to me once. The issue is not so much psychological damage to the child, although that's certainly possible with things like racial slurs. The problem is that children haven't developed the social skills to moderate their use of such words, so tend to use them at inappropriate times. Thus parents prefer that the get as little exposure as possible.

It's the same with porn. Children don't see it for the fantasy that it is because they don't really know any better, it's usually the only ex

Probably. I mean you can already get banned if someone reports your foul language. In fact it's extremely harsh, they give your account a lifetime ban and can even remote brick your XBOX.