''I can understand if they're filtering out profanity, but if feel like it's discrimination. By blocking a word like 'gay,' which is a preferred term by the gay community, you're encouraging it as a bad word.''

Michael Marsh, an 18-year-old gamer from Connecticut who wanted to set up a gay-straight alliance club in the Playstation 3's new virtual 3-D home world, but couldn't because of automatic censors that block potential profanity. The amazingly beautiful but imperfect 'beta' version of Sony's gaming environment is also said to be weeding out use of the words ''Jew," "Christ," and even "potential" and "hello" because they contain the letters in"pot" and "hell." (San Francisco Chronicle) Worst of all, there's just not a lot to do yet and it has generated some yawning reviews so far. (Washington Post)