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Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

https://piefed.social/c/nottheonion/p/1833455/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-discord-then-locks-the-server-af

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

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Rose Mar 2

That’s a bit weird. They didn’t get this worked up about being called “Micro$oft” or something. This is probably hitting the nerve in a completely different way!

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BodilessGaze

Microsoft has over 200k employees, and the people (person?) managing the discord are probably at the bottom of the totem pole. I doubt they put more than 5 seconds of thought into this.