Google Criticized as "Anti-American" for Tetris Logo

[Andy Chalk]

Google Criticized as "Anti-American" for Tetris Logo

Tetris [http://www.google.com]-style logo to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the famed videogame rather than marking the 65th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy.

Political leaders gathered in France this weekend to mark the 25th anniversary [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8087107.stm] of the creation of Tetris, one of the most popular and enduring videogames ever made.

But Google's whimsical choice has left some observers unhappy. "Here we are on June 6, 2009 and, in its inimitable way, Google has decided to memorialize the important occasion by adding an image on its homepage depicting... the computer game Tetris," conservative columnist Warner Todd Huston wrote on NewsBusters.org [http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/06/06/d-day-anniversary-google-memorializes-tetris]. "Yes, it's far more important to Google to celebrate the anniversary of the invention of the video game Tetris than to memorialize D-Day. It just warms the heart, doesn't it?"

"I have to say, though, that this is no departure for Google, a firm that finds it nearly impossible to post images celebrating any American holidays or important milestones in American history," he continued. "So, what we have here is just one more example of Google's essentially anti-American policies."

Google also took heat from poppies [http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100376] to mark Remembrance Day and honor the war dead of Canada, Australia, Ireland and the U.K.

via: GameCulture [http://www.gameculture.com/node/1367]


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[Aura Guardian]

Make's me really sad to be an American.

 

[guardian001]

Yes, why remember something that brought joy to the hearts of children and adults everywhere when we can remember the day all those people died on a beach...

Honestly if the people feel they need a google image to properly pay tribute to something, they probably didn't care much in the first place.

 

[The Bandit]

My typical response to this kind of crap: Who cares?

More importantly, what were they supposed to do? Use the corpses of soldiers to arrange their letters?

 

[El Poncho]

Must i say that half the troops in normandy were british/canadian.

 

[Tehpwnsauce]

It actually does warm my heart. I would rather see something cheerful then something deppressing, always.

 

[Armored Prayer]

Make's me really sad to be an American.

Same here.

 

[scnj]

*Insert half arsed joke about Americans being late for every war*

 

[Legion]

Some people need to get a life... I'd prefer Tetris than 'Google' spelt out in dead bodies of people on a beach for fuck sake.

 

[WrongSprite]

WHAT.

Seriously? Who gives a shit.

 

[Sewer Rat]

*reads* *walks away to grab cup of coffee* *takes a sip* *reads again* *spits out coffee* WHAT THE HELL!

 

[Trendkill6]

Why would you want a D-Day logo for google, war's just depressing.
Tetris on the other hand is extrememly happy. (Especially the music.)

 

[sirdanrhodes]

Wow, America is just like Nazi Germany...

Edit, how would you even do a Google image for that?

 

[DM.]

Somehow I knew that America would take offence to that.

Today Google is Anti American, Tomorrow Google is a terrorist.

It's all just silly.

 

[asinann]

It's just journalists trying to make names for themselves by being pretentious jackasses.

 

[Hobo Of Hell]

Un-American so all the British, Canadian etc. Soldiers yeah they just weren't their thats part of the fairy tales to make the other nations feel important. Get off you high horse America, may be uncaring or whatever but to say un-american well thats just stupid in my opinion.

 

[Eri]

Fuck I hate my country sometimes..

 

[The_White_Crane]

One was sixty-five years ago, the other twenty-five.

For how long should we remember the honoured fallen?

"A man is not dead while his name's still spoken."

Let them go to their rightful rest.