"mpeach obama21" gamertag banned!

I guess we are losing our freedom of speech. A 15 year old loses his gamertag because it is considered bad. "How would you feel if someone wanted to impeach you?" , was commented by X-box

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=128525

well the real reason it was banned is because he probably had alot complaints filed against him because of his name and it happens all the time. nothing to do with MS. Also MS just peeled back their GT restrictions on religious and sexual names. Political was never grounds for a banning or at least ive never heard of it.

God bless America

I'm so happy these morons get banned for having these names

Enough with the "well I want my name to be as inflamatory as possible because that's where I speak my mind"

Sit down and shut up

What's your name?
Frank
What game do you like?
Peggle
Your screen name is Freggle, if that's too complicated just go with FrankLovesPeggle

Freedom of speech does not apply to things like Xbox Live because it's a privately owned service. There's a terms of service to xbox live and it asks you to read it before signing up. Same things work here on Gamespot as well. What a name to pick anyways. The kid picked it to annoy people.RoslindaleOne

exactly. of course you'll get your gamertag revoked if you pick a negative term like Impeach. and using the current president makes it a nobrainer. If you put something like Mpeach Bush or mpeach Clinton, they'd probably not make you change your gamertag, but u never know. It's best to just pick a gamertag that you KNOW will not be offensive to anyone (especially at Microsoft). that kid got what he deserved. Your gamertag is not a place to "make a political statement." Play games on xbox. do your political speeches on the internet, or on a street corner. lol

I guess we are losing our freedom of speech. A 15 year old loses his gamertag because it is considered bad. "How would you feel if someone wanted to impeach you?" , was commented by X-box

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=128525

Jasonfinger

How about you come into my house and tell me what rights you have..I'll tell you to get the hell out. It's no different than people crying about the bad things on TV..well simple solution..DON'T WATCH TV!! I'm happy Microsoft is proactive with the ignorant gamertags going around. I don't know how many racist ones I've seen on LIVE that manage to get by. Be happy they're very proactive with these things because Sony users are by far worse. I seen one gamertag on PlayStation Network that said "Blackguywit****" ..so people be happy Microsoft doesn't sit on their hands and do nothing the Sony way!

I think we fail to realize it's about gaming and not drama!! And since the boy is 15 years old it's pretty obvious he's a imature attention go getter. Which is why I'm happy xbox live aint free because I could only imagine the high influx of additional ignorance.

Freedom of speech does not apply to things like Xbox Live because it's a privately owned service. There's a terms of service to xbox live and it asks you to read it before signing up. Same things work here on Gamespot as well. What a name to pick anyways. The kid picked it to annoy people.RoslindaleOne

exactly, that is why I can't say words like class on phantasy star universe. C L A S S, I don't know if I can say it here either.

I don't care about Obama one way or the other, but I fully support troll persecution.

You can say whatever you want on your own time. WhenI'm on a private service I'm paying for, I don't need mypersonal time wasted by attention junkies who think they're clever. Go start a Web site and get off the servers.

[QUOTE="RoslindaleOne"]Freedom of speech does not apply to things like Xbox Live because it's a privately owned service. There's a terms of service to xbox live and it asks you to read it before signing up. Same things work here on Gamespot as well. What a name to pick anyways. The kid picked it to annoy people.Talldude80

exactly. of course you'll get your gamertag revoked if you pick a negative term like Impeach. and using the current president makes it a nobrainer. If you put something like Mpeach Bush or mpeach Clinton, they'd probably not make you change your gamertag, but u never know. It's best to just pick a gamertag that you KNOW will not be offensive to anyone (especially at Microsoft). that kid got what he deserved. Your gamertag is not a place to "make a political statement." Play games on xbox. do your political speeches on the internet, or on a street corner. lol

Hahaha poor kid got his ass kicked by Microsoft.

God bless America

I'm so happy these morons get banned for having these names

Enough with the "well I want my name to be as inflamatory as possible because that's where I speak my mind"

Sit down and shut up

What's your name?
Frank
What game do you like?
Peggle
Your screen name is Freggle, if that's too complicated just go with FrankLovesPeggle

Jaysonguy

How much would you like to bet that NOBODY would complain if somebody had the gamertag "mpeach Bush"? back when he was president?

I guess we are losing our freedom of speech. A 15 year old loses his gamertag because it is considered bad. "How would you feel if someone wanted to impeach you?" , was commented by X-box

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=128525

How much would you like to bet that NOBODY would complain if somebody had the gamertag "mpeach Bush"? back when he was president?

MathMattS

I would so.......yeah

How much would you like to bet that NOBODY would complain if somebody had the gamertag "mpeach Bush"? back when he was president?

MathMattS

I can see why it was banned, your basicly openly saying that you don't like Obama, and while it does seem a bit over the top to ban the gamertag there are two reasons why it had to be.

1. There is no "Greetings from your pals here at Microsoft, we know you hate Obama and we know you want to see him get impeached but your friends in the community don't like it so can you please change your gamertag, your friends demand it." You can't be given the option to change your gamertag, and if your gamertag does get banned suck it up, get over it, this kid is such a baby.

2. If Microsoft had not banned the gamertag they would basicly promoting people to make their gamertags, HailHitler, 9/11Bomber, and ObamaKiller, how would you feel if you went onto XBL and saw a guy named U.S.OnFire, I would think the guy was a terrorsist. So whoever banned this kid was offended and if someone is offended XBL has to do something otherwise they would have to power over what goes on.

Freedom of speech does not apply to things like Xbox Live because it's a privately owned service. There's a terms of service to xbox live and it asks you to read it before signing up. Same things work here on Gamespot as well. What a name to pick anyways. The kid picked it to annoy people.RoslindaleOne

And it DID bother people, so then it got banned. I don't see a problem with this.

As others said, you agree to the ToS when you sign up. You waive your right to Freedom of Speech by agreeing to the ToS. Gamertags shouldn't be used as grounds for insulting others.

Good he should be banned.

Boo hoo... he got banned oh noes!

I personally don´t care if I see a gamertag that says mpeachobama, it wouldnt bother me. But the kid was CLEARLY picking the GT to piss people off. I have no sympathy. If your paying 50 bucks a year for a private service, no reason to dick around with your name.

I guess we are losing our freedom of speech. A 15 year old loses his gamertag because it is considered bad. "How would you feel if someone wanted to impeach you?" , was commented by X-box

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=128525

Jasonfinger

Also

"This name is actually, it's not likeable," ....What?

It's Microsoft's service.

They are allowed to do whatever they want, when they want.

yeah quit your complaining. they probably made you change it because people complained. a buddy of mine was named KY Jelly, and people complained, so they had him change it. no big deal or political adgenda. change it and get over it, or cancel your subscription. M$ could care less

I'd have to agree with MS on this - he's done it to annoy other people and so deserves to have it removed, whether or not it should be offensive is a different matter, but since it was clearly going to rile people it's good they took action and stuck to it.

The only thing I can add to this conversation really, is that MS have recently changed their name policy. In the past, people would get friends to submit multiple "bad gamertag" reports on them, and when it hit a limit, MS just send a message telling the person to change it; for free (making it a cheap work-around instead of paying to get the gamertag changed.

However, they now look at the gamertag manually after it gets any complaints at all; and if they deem it to be safe - it doesn't get changed (no matter how many complaints). But, if they deem it to be a breach of the TOS they now make you pay for a change instead.

Generally I have to congratulate the Xbox-Police; they do a better job of keeping xbox live clean than any other similar service does.

... yeah, obama is the greatest president the united stateswill ever have. a kid on x-box live with that username? it is an outrage. he should be sent to gitmo.

Impeach him for what crime?

I bet the kid didn't even know the difference between impeachment and being taken out of office.

You can say whatever you want on your own time. WhenI'm on a private service I'm paying for, I don't need mypersonal time wasted by attention junkies who think they're clever. Go start a Web site and get off the servers.

Rottenwood

Agreed. If i want to hear political soapboxes, i'll go to a political website. I already see plenty of legit and facepalm worthy debates on Youtube and such.

Impeach him for what crime?

I bet the kid didn't even know the difference between impeachment and being taken out of office.

vendettared468

Tends to happen quite a bit on the internet and in similar areas especially by the opposing party.

Impeach him for what crime?

I bet the kid didn't even know the difference between impeachment and being taken out of office.

vendettared468

good point. it was clearly a tag to draw attention to himself but what it did was show how ignorant he is

If it wasn't just made to draw attention and troll, I just have to ask just how much a 15 year old knows about politics to make such a statement anyways? Maybe after he's old enough to pay health care, worry about college tuition, oh you know have a job, pay bills, ready to buy a house.. basically do anything more than do homework, play sports and sit around playing video games while drinking a juice box and eating fruit rollups... Then maybe I could see it really trying to make a statement beyond "hey, it's me time."

Now mind you i'm not saying this to undermine the intelligence of a 15 year old, I'm more trying to point out that a 15 shouldn't even be thinking about politics they should be concentrating on being a kid and having fun while it last.

Wasn't there just an article on GS that MS was allowing religious, sexual preferences, etc allowed in gametags? Why not political too?

Wasn't there just an article on GS that MS was allowing religious, sexual preferences, etc allowed in gametags? Why not political too?

Cwagmire21

I guess we are losing our freedom of speech...

Jasonfinger

Microsoft restricting expression on their network is not violating anyone's right to free speech. Microsoft is not the US government. Xbox Live is a members-only club. They're free to make any rules they please, just like you're free to leave if you don't care for those rules.

EDIT: Forgot "not."

i think we are only discussing this because obama was in his username.

well the real reason it was banned is because he probably had alot complaints filed against him because of his name Gen007

Wasn't there just an article on GS that MS was allowing religious, sexual preferences, etc allowed in gametags? Why not political too?

[QUOTE="Gen007"]well the real reason it was banned is because he probably had alot complaints filed against him because of his name coolkid93

It is a shame that in America we can not express ourselves anymore. I think that he should be allowed to have that gamertag. ZombiefiedZomB

Wasn't there just an article on GS that MS was allowing religious, sexual preferences, etc allowed in gametags? Why not political too?

well in politics, commercials always bash their opponents for elections. And you cant say they don't.COSMICX815

Just because something 'high up' does something, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

I'd say that just raises the question: "Why should political parties be bashing each other all the time?" - maybe if they spent more time focusing on how they could improve the country and less time on what other parties have done wrong - we wouldn't be in a mess all the time (this goes for most western countries). Not to try to derail the topic, but in my opinion - a lot of the reason people don't trust politicians any more is because they are always saying about how everybody else is doing everything wrong; if people were looking more positively it wouldn't feel like the world was collapsing ever two minutes.

Anyway, question; Does anybody else get annoyed by politicians constantly bickering instead of working together?

So what part of the ToS did this kid break? I don't see any reason to make him change that name.

Edit: Guess I should have clicked the link.

"(mpeach obama21)could fall under sensitive current or historical events," Jordan explained. "Obama being president of the U.S. is a historical event for most of the people there. Microsoft doesn't tolerate such things. Microsoft Xbox wants to be a fun place for everyone."

I guess "mpeach" is offensive now :lol: O America..............