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

As more gaming moves online, the limited ideals of tech giants such as Microsoft are causing players to be locked out of games for their banter with friends and others.

Didi Rankovic

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.

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