{"id":8647,"date":"2010-11-22T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"microsoft-threatens-black-ops-swastika-users-with-banhammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/8647-microsoft-threatens-black-ops-swastika-users-with-banhammer","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft threatens Black Ops swastika users with banhammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Oh, you guys. Why can&rsquo;t a dev include in-game tools to create your own player emblem without a bunch of &ldquo;cool&rdquo;, &ldquo;clever&rdquo;, and &ldquo;totally original&rdquo; people immediately making swastikas and penises? Microsoft is coming down hard on the former, with Xbox LIVE director of policy and enforcement delivering a terse warning to the internet&rsquo;s 12-year old neo-fascists.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy post on his<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stepto.com\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"> blog<\/a>, Toulouse writes that, &ldquo;Tonight I got asked one of those questions that only my job can apparently engender, namely &lsquo;Hey, I&#8217;m not a genocidal hater of Jews but I really love the design of the swastika because its actually considered religious from hundreds of years ago, can I use it as my Call Of Duty: Black Ops logo? SWASTIKAS ARE AWESOME.&rsquo; No really, someone asked me this as a serious question on twitter. So I of course replied, &#8220;no, of course you can&#8217;t, we&#8217;ll ban you.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to explain that despite its significance as an esoteric religious symbol, &ldquo;If you think the swastika symbol should be re-evaluated by societies all over the Earth, I think that&#8217;s great. Your Xbox LIVE profile or in game logo, which doesn&#8217;t have the context to explain your goal, is not the right place to do that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And in related news, the internet is still full of immature twits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}