Google Criticized as "Anti-American" for Tetris Logo

[m_jim]

Google isn't an arm of the American government, therefore, it is not required to celebrate every little holiday by displaying 1000 American flags, as it is not owned by the American public.

Also, I believe Google's HQ are in Switzerland, so it doesn't matter x2.

The patriotism Americans display sickens me. They're so primitive.

Worse than the knucklehead conservatives like the man mentioned in this article are the people who think that the loud, dumb minority speaks for all of us in the USA. The ignorance these people display sickens me. They're so primitive.

 

[Fingolfin High-King of the Noldor]

I blame google for being stupid.

 

[JC175]

Yet another piece of proof that most Americans consider themselves to be at the centre of the universe.

Oh, boo-hoo. Get over it, for God's sake. I can't stand people whining without good reason.

 

[Jerious1154]

These people are obviously representative of all Americans, who are uniformly nationalistic assholes who hate video games and love war and are fat and don't believe in science and always stereotype the inhabitants of other countries because it's cool.

 

[MoganFreeman]

Well, Google's failure to recognize uniquely American holidays MUST be anti-american as the internet is only viewable from America, right?

 

[Steve the Pocket]

I simply cannot stand people like you.
One guy says something dumb, so you want to be british because you have a hard on for europeans or something.

Its so dumb, like apologizing for being a black guy because some other black guy killed a mexican guy, so your done being black and want to be chinese. Its retarded.

This.

WorldNetDaily is like the right-wing equivalent of those people who think Bush personally caused 9/11. Acting like anything they said is worth taking seriously or even attributing to a larger group of people than... well, the staff of WorldNetDaily, is ridiculous.

But then I suppose it's the twat who decided this was worth reporting on that I should be giving an earful. Who was it again? Oh. The Escapist. Well well. Looks like somebody needs to be given a little reminder as to what's news and what isn't. No don't tell me this is "relevant to gamers"; WorldNetDaily is even less sane or worth listening to than Fred Thompson. Even post-disbarment.

 

[superdance14]

Seriously? Of all the things to criticize.

 

[In Limbo]

A war that divided the world < A game that transcends cultural divisions.

As iGoogle Quote Of The Day says (poignantly) today:

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
- Bertrand Russell

 

[Podunk]

Okay, the biggest issue I have with this:

25= A legitimate milestone of remembrance

65= A random number of years that just ends in a '5'

maybe for the 75th, or the 100th year after D-Day...

But is it really what we want to see on effing Google?

 

[Lucas Auraelius]

America isn't the only country that uses Google and America wasn't the only country that fought that day. Morons.

 

[PumpActionJesus]

Is that not more....anti-France? If anti-anything.

Nothing wrong with abit of Anti-French now boy ;]

 

[Jerious1154]

I accept American lives were taken, but if I remember my history correctly weren't they mainly British and Canadian?

No, actually. It was 946 Canadians, 2700 British, 6603 Americans.
http://www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/faq.htm

In fact, more American soldiers died during WW2 than British soldiers because of fighting in the Pacific. More British people died in total though because of civilian casualties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Casualties_by_country

And yes, I did just look up all of those statistics 30 seconds ago. I'm not that much of a history dork.

 

[Lusperus]

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

and to a lesser extent, french.

 

[Pimppeter2]

This whole internet thingy? Turns out it's international to! Bloody commies.

/thread

 

[Emeli]

Anti-American? I wasn't aware that the Google team were supposed to be patriots. They show me an Australia day logo on Jan 26th, that's not very American of them, but no one's complaining.

Really it's about relevance. Tetris was one of the first big things in technoculture, something that contributed to the formation of a society that now pays them a bajillion dollars to keep up with the constantly changing new technoculture trends. That seems a little more relevant to me than a D-Day logo that their many German users might not be so flash on.

Honestly, they're a worldwide organisation, do they have to be gung-ho American just because they're based there?

 

[Dig Dug Dude]

Many people lost their lives during the invasion of Normandy, but I honestly think that Google was not wrong to ignore it.

As a person, I think their decision was okay because Google isn't owned by America. Google doesn't celebrate specific religous holidays so that no one feels left out. Google shouldn't be called Anti American because it didn't celebrate a specific country's memorial.

As a graphic artist, I think their decision could be justified because making a Tetris logo is way easier than a normandy invasion logo.

 

[Credge]

They could've done that 5 seconds after the war broke out, but they didn't.

Way to completely undermine WW2.

 

[brainfreeze215]

1. Google's users span over a much larger demographic than veterans, and yes, Americans.

2. Google is a company that has been around for years, and chances are they'll be around for a few more. Just because they don't celebrate one particular holiday EVERY SINGLE YEAR does not make them a bunch of flag burners.

Now if I were going to make a fun, quirky logo for a day of the year, would I choose the holiday that most people would find goofy and funny, or the holiday that is emotionally charged and could possibly offend as many people as are offended by NOT putting up a patriotic logo?

Ugh. This sort of blockheaded nationalism makes me sad.

 

[Flying-Emu]

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

Must I say that there were twice as many American casualties in the Normandy Landings as Britain and Canada put together?

 

[tkioz]

you've got to be freaking kidding me.

Warner Todd Huston, you sir are a tool.