Google Criticized as "Anti-American" for Tetris Logo
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I think it was over half which makes it even worse that only America take offence and the UK was vital otherwise the distance from America would be too far to attack via boats of planes succesfulyponcho14 said:
Probably more of a problem is that Queen wasn't even invited to the ceremony it was purely an America-Franco affair, seems like an excuse for Sarkozy to get close to Obama (It's the UK that has the "special relation ship not you lot)
why are the americans getting so uptight about it? surely google only do world-common things like this, rather than focussing on a single country, and making them feel more important than they already do (no offense)
i really dont know why everyone cares about it.
i mean im not american,
but
dont they have enough memorials, remeberance days, tributes etc.
i dont think google being used WORLD WIDE. sjhould stop for
just americans, they arnt the only ones in the world who's suffered
from war.
let alone should care if its not being tributed on google.
i mean im not american,
but
dont they have enough memorials, remeberance days, tributes etc.
i dont think google being used WORLD WIDE. sjhould stop for
just americans, they arnt the only ones in the world who's suffered
from war.
let alone should care if its not being tributed on google.
Sure, dropping many thousands of soldiers into their certain deaths was easier. Without support vehicles, the troops on the first rounds of transports that hit the beach, mostly the first rows, were literally sentenced to death. Without the mines and bunkers taken out, the nazis mowed them down easily...like lambs to the slaughter. Whereas, a few of the funnies, like CRABS and DD Tanks, ingenious designs of their time, could've made a difference, and a significant one at that. Those tanks could've cleared out mines, fortifications and beach bunkers easily, before the ground troops landed. Sure, deploying them was a little troublesome, but still not as hard as clearing the beach littered with corpses, guts, limbs and the sea of blood of brave soldiers who were sent to their certain deaths.Darkside360 said:
Those vehicles were in abundance, the Brits offered many of them to the D-Day landing battalions, but as always, some retarded generals decided it was a bad idea to save thousands of lives. Nuff said.
I, understand why the Americans are annoyed, The only war they actually did any good(even if they did come in after everyone else[better late then never.]) didn't get commemorated. Damn commies at Google.
{I, lol'd when I read the article}
{I, lol'd when I read the article}
I like the fact that it's labelled Anti-American when Britain played an equal part and it was to liberate France.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Yes, Google never acknowledges American Holidays...Malygris said: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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like the 4th of July (Yanks only).
Or thanksgiving (Yanks only).
Nope, no American holidays at all...
It wasn't just british troops that fought and died, the entire operation was launched from britain, the british infrasrcuture was pretty much dedicated to fighting the axis, maybe this guy needs to come down from his high horse and ask where the american heroes would have been if it where not for the royal navy piloting all those landing craftbernthalbob616 said:
I'm not denying American lives were taken, but thanks to your info now I know more Americans died so thank you for the new bit of knowledge. My thing is just because google didn't commemorate D-day it's branded as anti-American, doesn't that make it anti-British/Canadian/French and anti-all the other countries that were involved as they had people that died aswell.Jerious1154 said:
Ego. Why do Google even have to have anything america related. Who cares? They don't have to pro-America. America do some pretty stupid things like every country. Google can hate America if they like. In fact I'd encourage it. Freedom of hate, woop.
Paper beats Rock. Tetris beats D-Day.
Paper beats Rock. Tetris beats D-Day.
Another example of Americans believing they were the only country fighting on the Allied side, even when they missed most of World War II. Does no one in America study history, or do they learn it from watching BS Hollywood movies?
Winston Churchill said it best when he said:
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing... after they?ve tried everything else."
Winston Churchill said it best when he said:
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing... after they?ve tried everything else."
I think these people missed the point of google. It's a universal search engine. Not an american search engine. For this reason they have a problem on thier hands, if they let one thing through like D-Day then maybe britain will expect guy fawks day to make an appearance and maybe france will expect bastille day to make an appearance. It's just easier to choose neutral dates like the first time mount everest was successfully climbed and so on.
And so what if it put something up about rememberance day? The same occasion is held in many many other nations on the same day. Its just the poppy is the symbol most recognised for the occasion. What would the americans prefer? A "google" made of little fluttering american flags? with a little crowd of widows weeping the words "god bless America, and her brave fallen" with a 21 gun salute with everyone wearing shirts with hate phrases directed at non-americans on them? Give rememberance day any name you like, it still stands for the same thing. To stop people from remembering "A war" and make them remember the unknown amounts of people in thier thousands who died. Respect the day and stop moaning about how hard done by you are to not have a banner on google with your particular day name on it.
And so what if it put something up about rememberance day? The same occasion is held in many many other nations on the same day. Its just the poppy is the symbol most recognised for the occasion. What would the americans prefer? A "google" made of little fluttering american flags? with a little crowd of widows weeping the words "god bless America, and her brave fallen" with a 21 gun salute with everyone wearing shirts with hate phrases directed at non-americans on them? Give rememberance day any name you like, it still stands for the same thing. To stop people from remembering "A war" and make them remember the unknown amounts of people in thier thousands who died. Respect the day and stop moaning about how hard done by you are to not have a banner on google with your particular day name on it.
