anexperimentallife:

sirinial:

chiaroxoscuro:

anaisnein:

blenderbender1811:

vajussy:

polarbong:

Here’s some more of that Sex-Worker-Hate-Descending-Everyone-Into-Dystopia you ordered

https://mashable.com/2018/03/27/microsoft-new-tos-offensive-language/#5R19pPV05iqr

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3264658/privacy/microsoft-to-ban-offensive-language-from-skype-xbox-office-and-other-services.html

http://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news/66852/consumers-could-lose-money-and-games-for-using-offensive-language-on-microsoft-services-as-of-may/

sources for anybody needing one

Call your reps saying you’re not happy with the new bill, donate to the ACLU if you can, and call Microsoft’s customer support line to complain about their new TOS.

“Call Microsoft Customer Service direct - 1-800-642-7676 - hours 5 AM til 9 PM PST time (USA) - Saturday and Sunday, 6:00 AM – 3:00 PM PST time (USA). In Canada, call (877)568-2495.”

not even gonna pretend this is the single most urgent issue on my radar right now, but also I am incredibly not pleased with this New Puritan norm-shifting initiative; I for one prefer in a world where the infrastructure isn’t coercively G-rated.

What the actual fuck?

this TOS goes into effect May 1 and finally there’s some contact info here so YELL AT THEM YALL. this is censorship. microsoft already had provisions against slander and hate speech and sex trafficking; this is just puritanical bullshit. 

if you want to switch away from MS Office, here’s libreoffice and openoffice for your productivity needs. (libreoffice lets you save as .docx, which is useful for assignments and such, while openoffice doesn’t. both let you save as PDF.) 

the bill mentioned above (because i missed it on my first read of this post) is SESTA, or FOSTA-SESTA. here’s a good article explaining some of the factors and downsides. here’s one on FOSTA from the electronic freedom foundation. here’s one that goes into more legal detail. be informed. talk to your reps. fuck this. 

BTW, I write all my manuscripts in LibreOffice (linked to above), and highly recommend it. It’s free, open source, and does just about everything MS Office does (unless you’re using some truly obscure feature).