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Stephen "StepTo" Toulouse, a tech vet, humorist and well known for his role in managing Xbox Live over the years has passed away. His brother Jeff Toulouse that "It is with heavy hearts that we announce the loss of our brother, Stephen Toulouse, @Stepto, this morning." A Microsoft employee , Stephen served as director of Xbox Live policy and enforcement and helped shape the company's response to issues online communities are still dealing with.
Reddit adjusted its policies to deal with material that "encourages, glorifies, incites or calls for violence" while dumping the /Nazi board , and Twitter has only lately decided to In 2010 Toulouse why a swastika was already a bannable offense there, saying "If you think the swastika symbol should be re-evaluated by societies all over the Earth, I think that's great. Your Xbox Live profile or in game logo, which doesn't have the context to explain your goal, is not the right place to do that."
He also created which read as follows:
"The more convoluted, overwrought and lengthy the protest of innocence, the probability of it being bullshit approaches one."
Software engineer Brianna Wu about Toulouse that "I can think of no better way to honor @stepto than for him to be remembered as one of the first, hardest fighting activists on harassment."
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