From consumerist.com:

I had a similar incident, only my account was suspended because I had said in my profile that I was a lesbian. I was harassed by several players, ‘chased’ to different maps/games to get away from their harassment. They followed me into the games and told all the other players to turn me in because they didn’t want to see that crap or their kids to see that crap.

As if xbox live is really appropriate for kids anyways! My account was suspended and xbox live did nothing to solve this, but instead said others found it offensive.

From sfgate.com:

“A state lawyer tried Wednesday to revive California’s ban on selling violent video games to minors by arguing, to an apparently skeptical federal appeals court, that mayhem should be judged by the same obscenity standards as explicit sex.

Games in which players score points by killing, maiming, raping or dismembering human figures are “intrinsically harmful to the kids that play them,” Deputy Attorney General Zackery Morazzini told the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at a hearing here. Young game players develop aggressive thoughts and become desensitized to violence, he said.

Just as the sale of explicit pornography to minors is banned, the state should be allowed to establish an adults-only category of ultra-violent video games, as a 2005 law would have done, Morazzini said.”

Read more…