you can send images thru live!?

Why are kids even on X-Box live with the language? And even so, there are parental controls.

I must be using XBL wrong... I never see nude pics... Someone! Anyone! Enlighten me! ;)

It's always everyone else's fault. Never the parents. No way could it ever be the parents' fault.

Is this anything like someone putting up a spray in TF2, or is it more like the Uno Web-Cam thing?

That's nothing. One time, some Brazilian guy sent me a picture of his junk. I wish I was Brazilian, now. :(

"I want to be on TV so i'll make up shit about Xbox live!"

@anoffday:

Well, really, it's the fault of the asshole who allegedly sent the pics. Seems to me XBL could check message content/senders pretty easily, and could indeed take appopriate action pretty easily. Something about this story sounds false to me ...

I think we should all take refuge in this unstoppable pornographic onslaught. It's a slightly more high-brow refuge from the smack-talking 14 year olds and their foul language.

The article actually says "the damage to her children has been done." If your child becomes emotionally or psychologically "damaged" after just seeing genitalia, then your child has severe issues to begin with. This of course is society's fault for raising children to believe that you shouldn't know the true difference between boys and girls till your 13-14...I could go on endlessly on this topic.

I also am skeptical that support told her there was nothing they could do. I am under the assumption she wanted immediate results yet had no proof of the incident so when they offered her the resolution of blocking the gamertag or setting up parental controls she probably scoffed at actually needed to do something about it herself and hung up

@Strangelove: Yeah. But there are precautions that the mother could have taken. Plus you are suppose to be of a certain age to be on Live.

Gez. Look at her. It was probably her own husband that sent the pictures. Oops the kids were on mommy's gamertag again.

Maybe if somebody showed this blonde bimbo their genitalia once in a while she'd relax a bit and stop inventing bullshit stories about Xbox Live.

Now the level of profanity and asshole-ery on Live, that's a legitimate complaint...

Quality journalism and outstanding parenting One day journalists will wake up and realise they look like idiots when they fail to check their facts and parents will realise they only show up their ignorance and lack of parenting skills when they point the finger of blame. Shame on all the 'adults' concerned.

FAKE!

They said they were 18!! ;)

wait until parents find out their children can actually browse to porn sites through the browser on the ps3 *shock*. not that i know or anything... ;)

@qumahlin: i wouldnt doubt that. that's probably how it went down

@anoffday: Its because parents ALWAYS raise their children right... That's why its never their fault. I mean, when there are other people to blame for their mistakes (when they could actually KNOW what they could do to protect their children, if they took the initiative), they would pass the blame to them... They are NEVER, EVER at fault.

I didnt know that you could send pics at all.

At least she didn't say what her kids' gamertags were; she would then guarantee a bunch of nude pics to come in. Talk about XXX-Box live, amirite?

And the quote early in the article that "games are supposed to be a haven mostly aimed at kids" pretty much destroys any credibility this author might have had.

WTF.

Hey, Mom, do you let your kids just run willy-nilly on the internet? No, because there's a lot of shit that's not appropriate for kids. XBox Live IS CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET. It's not just for kids. Learn how to use the child safety features on your machines instead of letting technology raise your kids, you dumb bitch.

Can't get through to the website, the servers musnt be used to having more than one person, well i say one, more like 5 because of the fat redneck and his inbred cousins crowding round...

What the people what to be told, they will be told. Welcome to democracy.

HEADSHOT!
HEADSHOT!
HEADSHOT!
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COCK!

"Oh my god! Where's the number for Dateline! Get your bible! Go! Go! Go!".

Bad parenting, America's demise

@myself

And yes I did see it said Michigan. Redneck. Meh w.e. XD

@Witzbold: You can if you have a Live Vision camera. I know this because there is this chick on my friend's list that sends me (and everyone else) a random picture every week. Usually like dislocated MySpace-esq shots of her body part, or of her cat, or her Dad with an uncovered beer gut. And once this guy I beat at Madden 08 sent me a pic of his balls hanging out.

Which begs the question: Is it pornography if you do it yourself?

(BTW -- you can report offensive pics to "Xbox Live".)

How about learning to use the machine you bought for your kids, reading the manual to understand the parental controls? Instead of just buying it so you don't have to pay attention to them.

She's lying, the attention whore. >_< Maybe if her hubby showed her some lovin', she wouldn't feel the need to make up some lame ass story like this.

Man some of these comments are funny. It's her fault because she isn'y gettin laid? Wow, nice excuse! pfft....

Once I was playing on "Team Fortress 2" and while playing on "Team Fortress 2" someone post pornography called Meatspin on Team Fortress spawning area. I contacted Team Fortress 2 and they said their was nothing they could do. I was irreparably harmed.

What's an 'X-Box'? I'm surprised the article wasn't written in crayon.

@Adrock4:
Is that a compliment? :-P But, do you really use to talk to people who use to send pics of their genitalia through internet? How odd... Lol

Anyway, now we are moving to videogame corruption of minors. Let people pick some real problem and turn it into the greatest chaos of our time. That's why I quit watching television.

God I love that picture.

and its not like the kids were forced to look at the pictures. if someone sends you a picture and their not on your friends list, it asks you a couple of times if your absolutely sure you wanna risk looking at it. it doesnt take a genius to realize that viewing every picture that someone sends you might not be a good idea. i would think that their mother should have at least taught them that.

there should be some type of "license" to be able to be a parent, this way idiots wouldn't reproduce.

@crazyscreenwriter: Oh yeah I forgot about that camera thing they sold for the 360.

Crecente, what's with the ridicule? I don't think it's unreasonable that this woman didn't know strangers could send pictures to her kids through the Xbox 360. If I was unfamiliar with the console, I probably would have been under the impression that it just played video games.

It's below you, Crecente, to respond to this story with this sort of ridicule. Even if the target of your scorn is the media outlet that ran with this story, your reaction doesn't really put you above the kind of journalism you're deriding. Why not use the opportunity to again help educate parents about how to protect their kids? Maybe include a link that gives them information and instructions, like this one:

[www.xbox.com]

That seems more productive, and certainly more becoming of you and your reputation.

I'd have to assume Live couldn't do anything because the mother shut the system down without taking down the gamertag of the person. Without the gamertag, what can Live Support do? Nothing.

What were her kids, if they are indeed small children that have been sheltered from the world to be damaged by exposure to nudity in the first place, doing playing XBox Live without supervision?

My guess is that they were teenage or near post-adolescent "kids", and the mother is just your typically over-reactionary puritan.

I'm tired of a world that allows un-precedented levels of killing and gore and violence, but as soon as one of the most natural acts on earth, or a view of our natural state of being happens... IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!!

What a messed up society.

oh why whine about racism and 10 year olds swearing like aailors on shore-leave when we have xbox live giving us boobies!

another thing too is the live camara is useless to send images to other people! you can't make pics with spray tags either so maybe they got a connection to your PC and your husband's stash!

other then that there is no bloody way to see pics on naked people! unless they where playing UNO

Ugh. I imagine her kids signed themselves up and lied during the process, because they'd be forced to create a child profile that your parent can control with theirs (by registering a credit card to prove they're older than 18.)

So they're already breaking the EULA, whatever it may be called. They've lost the right to complain about the service, especially the mother since she didn't read about the parental control features in the first place.

ALSO THEY WHERE PLAYING HALO 3! THEY ARE FREAKING KIDS!!!!

Lol these comments are funny. I would say that it isnt totally her fault she didn't send the pictures! But she should have used the parental controls and they agreed that there 18 years old in the registration progress. So she dosn't really have a leg to stand on there.

I dont see how her kids we disturbed by naked pictures if so there fucked when they grow up.

I demand you send someone with those MIB neuralyzer thingies over to my home THIS INSTANT!

Just imagine when Playstations "Home" comes out.

Someone wants a fat check from MS, I hope she doesn't get one.

mother:
"And then, *sob* then they ABUSED my lack of knowledge and they NEVER told me that if I read the instructions I could've prevented my kids from going online and see such insanities. T_T It's all THEIR fault that I'm ignorant, please Xbox Live, save me from my Ignorance!"
There are some reasons why the Xbox is for mature people, and it's because online content/other gamers are hard to filter. Don't go whining in the news that your kids saw a penis online, because THAT is silly.

We should seriously remove all "Caution" stickers on hazardous products and let the planet clean itself of stupid people of the kind.

I love how they spell Xbox with a hypen haha. X-box.

Live stole my innocence from me in a dark alley one night. I hate you Live! I hate you!

Damn she wasn't suppose to say anything.

Oh, XBL... how you disappoint

@Kaljin:
"Why are kids even on X-Box live with the language?"

lol thats funny considering most of the worst language I hear on live is coming from the mouths of kids.

On a side note I actually doubt the validity of this womans claim, due to two issues.
One, why didn't she report the gamertag that sent the picture... that would have resulted in an instant ban.
Two, this comment lifted directly from the article: "Jennifer says the damage to her children from this incident has already been done".

Thats a pre-lawsuit statement if I ever heard one.

"X-Box Live, a video game"
X-Box Live is a video game, guys.

5 bucks the kids asked for the picture.

She's lying. Trailer park Mom thinks she's come up with a way to get Uncle Bill to pay the rent now that the douches down at the strip joint have decided she's too used up to fuck anymore.

Ugh, you have got to be kidding me. The way that she comes off in the interview, it sounds like she's lying to me. Attention whore perhaps? I don't believe for a second that the folks on the XBL help line couldn't help her out with this thing.

One other thing someone please let the news station know the X-box live is a service enabling online play, not a game.