Major Nelson managed to get a new podcast up yesterday, wherein he devoted a good portion of time to Xbox LIVE policies regarding TOS, acceptable language, and the recent visit paid to the Xbox offices by GLAAD.
Gay Gamer reports that Stephen Toulouse, who polices the Xbox LIVE community, had this to say:
“I can’t talk about what we discussed specifically except to say that we provided them with a lot of information about what we do today, why we do what we do and how we do it. And then we asked them the question, ‘How can we do this better?’ And we have some ideas. Here are some ideas. That dialog was super, super helpful. I think it was a great engagement. Justin and Jeffrey who came out from GLAAD really appreciated the effort that we’re putting into it – and had great ideas, like they brought up some stuff we hadn’t thought of.
I would recommend to any business who’s tackling these issues, they’re a great group to work with. The GLAAD folk totally understand a variety of things, they’re really great to work with. They want to enable communities to be safer. They just want to enable communities to be safer – that’s what my team tries to do as well, so it was a great thing.
We’ll plan to say something about [GLAAD and Xbox LIVE policy] in the future.”
It really seems as though Toulouse and Major Nelson are all for making the community safer for everyone and discrimination free. With any luck, they’ll do a better job of controlling the community in the future.
Anyone else out there ready to have Xbox start cracking down on immature/rude/idiotic people on Xbox LIVE?
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