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Essentially, moderators at Xbox Live can permanently label someone a cheater if they believe the person has used some kid of shady means to boost their score. The label shows up on the person's profile tag like a Scarlet Letter for all to see.

They also can no longer earn back achievements.

Julius, an 11-year-old from Edgewood, and his mom Jennifer claim the boy can't even comprehend the concept of cheating, much less use a program that could hack the system and manipulate his score.

Jennifer has been trying to get answers from Microsoft, and after getting the run-around for a while, she finally got some e-mails from a lawyer explaining Xbox Live's strip-and-shame policy for people they think are cheaters.

It's a policy first rolled out in 2008. More on that here and here.

Whether little Julius is actually a cheater or not, we may never know. But somehow he seems a bit too adorable to sink to that level.

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Interesting story, poor lad. Sad to think someone who didn't comprehend what they did wrong is being punished. Perhaps if they were to give him an exception, a one time-thing, you know?

And with autistic people, it's not that they're incapable, it's just that it's much more difficult to do so. Hope this all gets fixed up.

If only I could read his gamertag off that screen, I'd message the kid asking how the heck he can manipulate and convince people to believe him.

Microsoft needs to fix its banning system.

poor kid. . .
That really blows

this is just sad if they dont know what they did wrong why ban?

Pretty sad that they just ban any kid if they think they're involved in some sort of cheating. The poor kid probably just joined some random game of call of duty and it happened to be hacked/modded so he got labeled for it.

Hmm, anyone can hack i guess, but still, if he has some sort of disability then ms should give him a chance.

But if he has that much of a problem with his autism, why does he have an Xbox?

hold on whats the problem here? He hacked it so ban him

our younger generation ftw