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more about #drama FrankieViturello: Homosexuality and Lesbianism don't exist in the Star Wars universe. Brother-on-sister incest on the other hand ... more » Tyber_Zann: Bioware had every right to filter what they wanted - its a message board. Free speech doesn't exist there. Sad to see that they caved in. Have a backb... more » FairGamer: Man I hate when these topics come up, I truly do. No matter what, the discussion is immediately filled to the brim with a bunch of sheltered WASPs wh... more » MrBionic: Not that I'm gay or anything, but I totally want that rainbow lightsaber. Ok, so I'm gay, but come on, rainbow lightsaber? Hells ya. more » TRT-X: To be fair, words like "gay" "retard" "homo" etc...often end up getting filtered because 9 times out of 10 they're used to insult somebody rather than... more » tomsamson: I think the words gay, lesbian and hetero should be banned from any public video game related forum. Why? Because if you want to talk about your sexua... more » QualityJeverage: I have to have a little sympathy for them, it's a confusing issue. On the one hand you've got the people who use the words as intended, but on the oth... more » JudgeNutmeg is running from his own grenades: It is on such occasions that it feels incumbent upon me to ironically mimic the vocabulary of so many commenters which can be found anywhere that peop... more » randlsa: What a joke... Everything has to include the gay agenda these days. Get over it already! I'm sick of hearing about it. Is nothing off limits for th... more » WordMan: I don't have anything against being gay in general, but personally, I don't feel the need to bring up the fact that I'm a straight guy on message boar... more » 99-Luft-Balloons: Well if gayness doesn't exist in the Star Wars Universe why would there even be threads regarding the issue? I am by no means a homophobic person, but... more » Falsoman: The order was restored by the power of the light... the multicolored light =) more » Curse lily: So BioWare have been defeated by the threat of the rainbow lightsaber.... AHEM...LOL we all knew how this would end. more » Peter Pinto: I just knew they couldn't disown the fact that C3P0 might be a homo. Nice going bioware you just pwned yourself. more » ThisUserNameIsTooLong: That was a fast fix. Good on them for admitting a mistake. more » yashichi8bit: Rainbow lightsaber? That's a first. more » -
#theinternetstrikesback
BioWare Lifts Filter On Gay, Lesbian Star Wars Discussion, Issues Apology
Yesterday, members of the official Star Wars: The Old Republic asked developer BioWare to "rethink" its policy on filtering the words "gay" and "lesbian" from posts. The official moderator response was not exactly... elegant. More »
