Microsoft has somewhat bastardized the meaning of the “X” button at the top of the “Do you want to upgrade to Windows 10? screens”. The X button on just about every Windows pop-up screen means “close, don’t do anything”, and Microsoft has gone on record as saying “We interpret that X to mean ‘yes, go ahead and load W10’”

In other words, “no”, in Microsoft’s world, now means “yes”.

So what does this have to do with rape? For years and years, we have been told “No means No” – when a woman says “no”, that’s the end of it. No means No.

But now we have Microsoft redefining “no” to mean “yes”.

This is a bad precedent.