Kotaku just did an interview with Stephen Toulouse, program manager in charge of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live. Apparently Microsoft has an ENTIRE team dedicated to finding the newest slang to figure out if it needs to be banned from use in Live. Here's an excerpt:

"Our forbidden names list is many thousands now," said Stephen Toulouse, program manager in charge of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live. " Language takes on new meanings daily.

"My team spends a lot of time learning as slang evolves, as the Internet drives new communications. We have to work very hard to be abreast on those sorts of things."

The team also tracks curse words from other languages and keeps an eye on inappropriate phrases that could bubble up from geopolitical issues.

"We have to work very hard to be abreast on those sorts of things."

Oh, you mean the word "frak?" Oh, the irony! Oh, the many ways Seth Green has ruined online play :P!

seriously, this is fucking stupid. these guys are claiming they are working very hard to ensure they still get paid next week. sitting at a desk on forums all day to find a new slang term in-case one arrises is not hard work. in fact, its the complete opposite of work. 

i don't think this really works out. it doesn't seem like there are a lot of things xbox live does to fix this. there are still 12 year olds screaming into the mic and yelling. their system is fluid also, if a person gets enough complaints then the person will get banned for a couple of days on xbox live.

"http://kotaku.com/5317082/frak-to-cleveland-steamer-xbox-lives-big-book-of-forbidden-wordsThere's the rest of the article for your reading pleasure. It's gotten so ridiculous that word's like "frak" and even the infamous Cleveland Steamer (from family guy) are banned. What do you guys think? Do you think this is for the good of the community on Live or do you think they're just catering to the over-sensitive, pro-family crybabies? Can the possibly win this battle? Are we finally seeing the rise of dystopian undertones on Live? "

So if I begin a huge campaign to get everyone to replace "fuck" on Xbox Live with the word "buttered toast," they would ban buttered toast?

" So if I begin a huge campaign to get everyone to replace "fuck" on Xbox Live with the word "buttered toast," they would ban buttered toast? "

Obscene language and the internet in general go hand-in-hand. It's just how it is. I'm sure the Policy and Enforcement team know this, so whatever. Besides, i think I'd get kind of annoyed if every other gamertag said something like "FuckMyBigCock" or "YouHaveASmallPenis"

Yeah why do people care they do this? What drives you to want to make your name BigDickTom or whatever? Who cares?

" @RsistncE said:

"We have to work very hard to be abreast on those sorts of things."

Ban that fool. "

" Obscene language and the internet in general go hand-in-hand. It's just how it is. I'm sure the Policy and Enforcement team know this, so whatever. Besides, i think I'd get kind of annoyed if every other gamertag said something like "FuckMyBigCock" or "YouHaveASmallPenis" "

This is why freedom of speech is cool and why even private businesses should embrace the fucking shit out of it.   Giant Bomb doesn't censor words and it's not full of cunt-pickles that swear just for the fucking fun of it.