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Xbox Live Now Allows Gender Expression 348

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday March 06, 2010 @02:57PM from the good-on-you dept.

Last year we discussed news that an Xbox Live gamer was banned for identifying herself as a lesbian on her profile. Microsoft said at the time that nothing sexual in nature could appear in Gamertags or profiles. Now, they seem to have reconsidered their stance, and they've updated their Code of Conduct accordingly. Xbox Live General Manager Marc Whitten wrote: "[The update] will allow our members to more freely express their race, nationality, religion and sexual orientation in Gamertags and profiles. Under our previous policy, some of these expressions of self-identification were not allowed in Gamertags or profiles to prevent the use of these terms as insults or slurs. However we have since heard feedback from our customers that while the spirit of this approach was genuine, it inadvertently excluded a part of our Xbox LIVE community. This update also comes hand-in-hand with increased stringency and enforcement to prevent the misuse of these terms."

Comment IP Addresses aren't the problem (Score 1) 505

by wyopittsa on Tuesday November 04, 2003 @03:02PM (#7388738) Attached to: Dispelling the IPv4 Address Shortage Myth

Another problem that is actually more pressing has to do with the unique autonomous system number (AS) that are used in BGP (the internet's routing protocol). In the past, a network would just use an AS number from the private partition of their upstream provider, but now more and more networks are becoming multi-homed to two or more providers. Once a network is multi-homed, it then has to request its own AS number. These AS numbers are actually being depleted faster than IPv4 addresses. It has forced the BGP community to begin phasing in a larger AS number field.

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