Agreed!
Me too!
Sony need to sort this out. I'm getting a bit sick of them doing this shit!
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Reddit user:"Sony Banned me for a common nickname in my culture."
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Agreed!
Me too!
Sony need to sort this out. I'm getting a bit sick of them doing this shit!
Thank you both. I was more addressing some posters who said if you come to Latin America you better be prepared to hear it. Which confused me haha.
I would hope there is a banned list as it is. And I do agree with this. Don't allow it and then take it away.
Sony US maybe, but Sony Mexico or Sony Spain knows of course
Mmm you gotta be kidding, right?
You can't possibly believe that a person should google their name to see if means something offensive in other languages before they sign up for something. It's not a reasonable thing to ask.
I'm all for banning offensive words, but only if you can confirm there's intent to offend in the first place.
Now, if the guy's account was for the US/UK or any other English store, yeah, I get it.
I don't think it does? But I might have holes for eyes or be missing a joke?..
That's not even an "a" after the "r".
Do you think only one person per country should be named Enrique and have a family name starting with Per[o...]?
LMAO....when you erase half of an "n"...it looks like an "r". That shit looks like "[email protected]". Or an approximation...minimum..
What is this person gonna use next...."[email protected]"?
LMAO.
You didn't read what I said. I said I only knew it was a slur.
Cultural Sensitivity is a thing and I think because PlayStation is a global brand it something that they have to consider . It is something every person should think about regardless of their place in the world
I think PSN (a global service, in which you can find yourself playing with people from various different backgrounds) should let the user know it's an offensive word, and not let you choose that word in your nickname.
This can work from both sides. There are words in English which sound like slurs in other languages. Hundreds of them, I'm sure. Why do you get to decide that English language or, by extension, American culture (for example the word fags in the UK) is how the rest of the world should be moderating itself? I think here we're all for moving forward, but you don't get to decide that your culture/language is the only way to go when it comes to what words are okay and are not.
I would imagine that Sony branches worldwide would flag various racial, ethnic and religious slurs and look for usernames with those slurs. Although I might just be giving Sony too much credit, lol
the phone number from the third edit
is the phone number for US / canada
Yes, I'm sure Sony is banning US users from using slurs in other languages as their name as well...-.-
That sounds like a good compromise. But banning the dude after the fact seems unnecessarily harsh.
When it's usernames appearing in text, intent is irrelevant. There's no way for the person reading it to know the intent nor is there any way for the platform holder to know.
I say this as someone who believes that occasionally people discount intent a little too much in order to call people out on mildly offensive shit. But in text there's just no way to sort that out, so I'm fine with a blanket ban. PSN is a global community and every member needs to just remember that, that sometimes minor inconveniences may befall them for the good of the larger (and more diverse) group.
Banning the dude is totally ridiculous and exposes, again, the extreme weakness of the PSN infrastructure, which I am assuming is a big part of the reason PSN customer support is so fucking impotent to help with issues like this.
Ah, alright. It's a cute sounding nickname... just a shame about the spelling.
sony really needs to reconsider how permanent bans are carried out
a misunderstanding like this should not lock someone out of their purchases for life, and fixing it should take just a few phone calls
a misunderstanding like this should not lock someone out of their purchases for life, and fixing it should take just a few phone calls
As I said before - I think the poor guy should be unbanned and Sony should simple let him change his nickname. Banning him and locking him out of all his games is incredibly anti-consumer.
lol, I cant really say I blame sony on this one. If the user emails them and explains how it was a misunderstanding, they should unban the account and let him change his username.
I don't think it does? But I might have holes for eyes or be missing a joke?..
Do you think only one person per country should be named Enrique and have a family name starting with Pero[...]?
No. But why does your quoted image look different than the OP screenshot?
It's Sony's fault for letting him create a name like that in the first place. They're basically blaming him for their own mistake, which is beyond ridiculous. It'd be really sad if the guy doesn't get his account back. I wish him the best of luck.
This is the issue. This "English/American first" approach comes across as pretty ignorant to me.
I guarantee you a british user who wanted to use the gamertag fagsmoker or any variant thereof would have it blocked on any service that has any form of name vetting
Is this your first run-in with multi culturalism? As a hispanic Ive dealt with it my whole life.
What I learned that it's not always about you and that context matters.
If you're asking that a common name in my culture be banned from being used as a name because it offends your sensibilities then the one who has a problem with respect is you. Its use as a name is much more common than its use as a slur.
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What the fuck are you even on about
I can't even fucking fathom this degree of ignorance
EDIT: TIL every Bill C... or George B... is a professional troll
i mean, the guy has seemingly been spending hours with sony support getting nowhere, so i guess it's time to blame sony on this one for not sorting it out?
Forcing him to change his username would be appropriate I guess. It's Sonys platform and they decide which names are ok and which not. But locking him out of his content at least a huge dick move. This shows perfectly how we don't own anything that is connected to an account. PSN, Steam, Xbox live etc. is not selling you stuff. You just buy a license to use their stuff which can be revoked at any time. He should really ask a lawyer or someone else with a legal background to see if this is illegal where he's from.
Ya, you can blame sony if they arent being receptive
Yeah people shouldn't have the word 'fag' in their name either.
User Banned (Permanent): Inflammatory false equivalence regarding antisemetism, history of similar infractions.
With all respect, bullshit. Kike is not offensive in any latinamerican country, or Spain for the case (the countries I lived in or know, at least).
Just did a quick google, see:
Randy is a complete normal american nickname right? Well, its an slang to call prostitutes in India. Should Sony start banning Randy-like user names? mmm.
Because the email appears at two place in the screenshot.
Once at the top, in the receiver entry, and once in the corpse of the mail when they mention his sign-in.
Here are the two:
Top:
Middle
He could very well be named Enrique Percival based on the images. That's definitely not an "a" that follows the "r".
You are totally derailling this topic and yes, dare I say, you should be checking your eyes (or the way you use them).
What is ignorance? The email in the OP screenshot seems so say "[email protected]". Do you think that's really Pena Nieto?
Que crees? Que no se lo que hablo?
Not to me. And part of being multi cultural is understanding that kike is one of the most offensive terms used against Jewish people and most of us will never be able to view it neutrally.
Absolutely, and even here in the UK that word is relatively well understood, predominantly through exposure to American media. I guarantee you there are old Yorkshire farmers living all around me who have no idea about the American connotations of that word. The world is americanising, absolutely, but I'm certainly not going to go around thinking that's the right way to be. I live in England, but I'm Latin American, and the way we use certain words or sounds in our mother tongue, Spanish, isn't less important than the way you use those sounds in English.
The bottom image, which is the OP screenshot, seems awfully close to "[email protected]". That seems to be the official reply from Sony.
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Kind of avoided the majority of my post. English is a more important language than Spanish? I think that's really ignorant.
It really doesn't look like that. What the hell are you smoking?
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