Microsoft suspends Xbox Live gamer because he's from Fort Gay, W.Va.

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

Microsoft Corp. and the chief rules enforcer for Xbox Live are apologizing to a small West Virginia town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating the online gaming service's code of conduct by publicly declaring he's from Fort Gay — a name the company considered offensive.

The town's name is real. But when Moore tried to tell Seattle-based Microsoft and the enforcement team at Xbox Live, they wouldn't take his word for it. Or Google it. Or check the U.S. Postal Service website for a ZIP code.

Instead, they suspended his gaming privileges for a few days until Moore could convince them the location in his profile, "fort gay WV," wasn't a joke or a slur: It's an actual community of about 800 in Wayne County, along West Virginia's western border with Kentucky.

... Mayor David Thompson also tried to intervene, but with little success. Thompson did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press but told television station WSAZ, which first reported the dispute, that he was informed the city's name didn't matter. The word "gay," he was told, was inappropriate in any context.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/09/08/national/a030638D98.DTL&tsp=1

[Fumesucker]

1. Better not sing Kookaburra around Microsloth then..

[izquierdista]

2. One of the byproducts of the Agricultural Revolution

Back before the days of farm mechanization, when there were no machines to do the work of 50 men, people like the "chief enforcer" were where they belonged, shoveling shit in a barn and trying to remember not to fall face first into it.

[femrap]

9. Thank you

so much for that vision.....:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[RKP5637]

3. What F'ing stupid society we live in... 21st century leaders, ha, what a joke. More like

21st century losers.

[Bitwit1234]

4. I have a dear life long friend and her name is

Gaye. Wonder what would happen if she tried to join. She has been called Gaye since she was a baby.

[surrealAmerican]

5. Of course they wouldn't "google" it.

This is Microsoft. They'd have to "bing" it or something.

[SoxFan]

17. And Bing would give them pictures of...

something completely unrelated, like an Australian football game from 1998.

[JerseygirlCT]

19. LOL! Good point! nt

[LynneSin]

6. I hope there are no gamers from Intercourse or Bird-in-Hand

:eyes:

[Posteritatis]

10. Or Dildo, not too far from my neck of the woods.. (nt)

[Occulus]

11. or Hell, MI

or Manassas, VA

[JerseygirlCT]

20. Blue Ball, Paradise...

Gave us many giggles as we traveled through so often!

[KamaAina]

7. Sprinter Tyson Gay could not be reached for comment

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. I blame prudes and their constant demands for videogame censorship.

[nightgaunt]

12. Don't look up "Gay Science" by Neitzsche then

Though gay has another meaning just as faggot does. Gay also means happy, faggot means a bundle of sticks tied together for kindling wood. In the UK it also is slang for a cigarette.

[superduperfarleft]

13. If Xbox Live bans the use of the word "gay," there's going to be all of three people left playing.

[jtrockville]

14. Heh, wonder if he has any buddies in Intercourse, PA

Oops, should have read the comments before posting... LynneSin had intercourse first.

[RamboLiberal]

16. Or Blue Ball, PA

Great amusement in that section of my home state with our names.

And we also have Climax, Beaver, Big Beaver.

[chrisa]

15. That's what you get for not playing on PSN.

:)

:sarcasm:

[mike r]

18. Or Fucking, Austria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria