Trash Talk Once Went Hand-in-Hand With Gaming. But Big Tech Is Killing It.

Esports and competitive gaming inherit a lot from traditional sports, and one of those things is a tactic of undermining the opponent's morale with "trash talking."

But however significant and long-present, this practice, at least in esports, could be facing extinction at the hands of overzealous video game moderation tools.

What modern tools such as those used by big platforms like Microsoft are trying to "tackle" is by no means a new phenomenon, but as more and more people play against friends online, and the games in general are transitioning there, things like trash talking the opponent are increasingly on the radar of the ever-moving censorship targets.

What was once a mainstay of college dorm rooms in the 2000's could soon be relegated to history as gaming, like pretty much everything else, gets filtered through the language censorship filters approved by Big Tech.

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