Yes it’s real and it’s pretty ridiculous, but I don’t think outrage will change anything. What are your thoughts Radio_God?
My first thought was all the poor kids out there that told me they were boning my mom on call of duty.
My second thought, was if I open up a word document and write every cuss word I know to get banned from microsoft services, would that involve MS removing cortana from my OS? And app spying?
I heavily doubt they have the compute power to actively decipher voice in every instance but text is easy.
What if they take away your Windows license.
It would have to be reported. So if you are just using word to print essays on paper nothing will happen if you type fuck
Before you all go on a rage.
No. This is not new.
Please read the changes carefully. The wording that has been added I don’t think is that great at all.but it’s not banning swearing that was added (xbox tod never changed).
I’d be screwed if they took my windows license, my linux adventure went badly:)
But then you could sue for money. And be rich.
I’m not mad about it, suprisingly. Just in awe.
Check the change.
That added a single word about offensive language. This is likely more geared towards ‘hate speech’ and that sort of stuff but is quite vague.
It is also specific about published sharing falls under that, and not your dirty Skype calls.
(I think it’s a bad change. Just pointing out it should be read carefully to have a proper discussion)
You mean there isn’t a team at Remond who flick from Skype call to skype call, listening for rude words, itching to swing a great big Ban Hammer?
I never read it to begin with. I erase skype after it re-installs every fall update. I also don’t do email or anything through windows 10. I just assumed they spy on everything to the nth degree.
That’s awesome.
I read a similar article from a different source. They seem to attribute these new policies to newly expanded / enacted sex trafficking prevention laws.
I said a while ago that all manufacturers will start doing this to thwart or to help people in sex trafficking and to find people who dabble in the illegal world.
I’m pretty sure that a Silver Surfer.
I’m not sure that it is. It seems like they’re mostly trying to cut back on people getting unwanted nudes/gore, reduce the amount of bad language that younger kids are exposed to and whatnot.
This is going to strike you all as odd, but based on the article, I’m not against it in full, yet. What I’d like to see is a more clear explanation from Microsoft on their policy before I fully give it my support though. It sounds like an awful lot of people are worried about microsoft reading all your private correspondence and my response to that is that they’re likely already doing that.
The only thing I don’t understand is why O365 and Bing are in that list.
Yep, this is entirely why I support it. If you want to send nudes, Telegram/Signal already exist and are easier to use (IMO) than Skype, so do it that way, but if Microsoft is trying to make steps against that sort of stuff, I’m all for it.
That said, Microsoft should really have gone the other way with it: Make Skype a honeypot for sex traffickers and whatnot so they can monitor communications and share with law enforcement.