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(2019) "Uyghur" is literally a banned word in the League client

This thread was added on October 21, 2019, with posts from The_Cactopus.

Original Post

Try changing your status message to Uyghur. You can't. It's a legitimate name of a legitimate ethnic group, but Tencent-owned League is so sensitive about covering up the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people that they won't even let you use the word. I've enjoyed this game for almost 10 years, but garbage like this makes me want to never play again.

Are there any good MOBAs that aren't owned and operated by companies that bow down to genocidal regimes? Because I'm not sure if I can continue to support this company in good conscience.

Gonna go look into this right now. Sometimes our system bans really weird words for no good reason. That said it would be compete bullshit to intentionally ban the name of any ethnic group. Will update when I find out more.

UPDATE: Effective immediately this is fixed on live in all Riot Regions. We'll be spending the next few weeks triaging with our global teams to review our "disallowed words/phrases" lists and update accordingly.

Yuj808

i just tried this and interestingly enough uyghurs isn't filtered but uyghur is

Gonna go look into this right now. Sometimes our system bans really weird words for no good reason. That said it would be compete bullshit to intentionally ban the name of any ethnic group. Will update when I find out more.

UPDATE: Effective immediately this is fixed on live in all Riot Regions. We'll be spending the next few weeks triaging with our global teams to review our "disallowed words/phrases" lists and update accordingly.