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Microsoft has apologised to a town in America after suspending one of its residents from Xbox Live. Twenty-six-year-old Josh Moore was banned because officials said he'd broken Xbox's code of. Microsoft (MSFT) is kicking people off again from its popular XBox Live service for inappropriate sexual expression. While technically within its rights, Microsoft is going against its own.

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Microsoft is in damage control mode after it suspended a year-old gamer's Xbox Live account because he used an "offensive" name for his home offensive namewas "Fort Gay.". Microsoft says it will apologize to the small West Virginia town of Fort Gay and a year-old gamer it booted from Xbox Live after he wrote in his profile that he lived there. Moore lives in Fort Gay, a small town of under 1, people in West Virginia's Wayne County.

The word "gay" in the place name set off red flags with Xbox Live, and Moore found himself.

"Fort Gay" Gamer Suspended over "Offensive" Name - CBS News

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Above: It took about 10 seconds to see that Fort Gay is indeed a city. Meanwhile, it doesn't seem that Sony hasdealt with any of these"very, very specific" cases, and your identity on the Wii is something like "," so no chance of anything "offensive" there. When it was brought to my attention we revoked the suspension. Because of his suspension, which lasted a few days, he missed a key game last week which his team went on to lose.

See more Games News. He said: "I'm not even gay and it makes me feel like they were discriminating. Mecha Break review: "This mech battler makes up for lacking customization with a varied roster that lets me live out my Evangelion fantasy". The town's name is real. Recommended reading. Squid Game season 3 review: "A staggeringly excellent final season wraps up one of the greatest Netflix shows ever".

None of that, however, matters to Josh Moore, who just wants Microsoft and Xbox Live "to acknowledge this is a real place with real people in it. More from CBS News. It makes me feel like they hate gay people," said Moore, an unemployed factory worker who plays shooters like Medal of Honor, Call of Duty and Ghost Recon under the gamertag Joshanboo.

His team lost. Xbox user: 'My experience of being cut off'. Moore said he was even told that if he put "Fort Gay" back into his profile, they'd completely ban his account and keep all of his prepaid Xbox Live Gold membership money. Complaints, he notes, come to agents with no contextual information, including who the suspected offender is or what games they play.

But one thing is clear: The word "gay" was not always politically charged. He said: "Some took the phrase 'fort gay WV' and believed that the individual who had that was trying to offend. Fort Gay has been a community since , when 11 people tried to establish a settlement at the junction of the Tug and Big Sandy rivers, across from what is now Louisa, Ky.

View cart. Even the town's Mayor David Thompson got involved but with little success. It actually sounds like a plausible name. More on this story.