Google Criticized as "Anti-American" for Tetris Logo

[quack35]

My suspicions are confirmed.

GOOGLE HATES AMERICA

 

[cainx10a]

Time to shove freedom and democracy down Google's throat. -Grab pitch fork- "To arms lads!"

 

[Trivun]

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

Exactly this. The US isn't the centre of the universe, despite what the more arrogant ones like this 'complaining guy' who hates Google would have us all believe.

 

[MrPop]

As said earlier "anti-American"? What about all the British and Canadian troops.
Just a little quote to educate everyone. I know it did for me on the sheer scale anyway:

On D-Day, the Allies landed around 156,000 troops in Normandy. The American forces landed numbered 73,000: 23,250 on Utah Beach, 34,250 on Omaha Beach, and 15,500 airborne troops. In the British and Canadian sector, 83,115 troops were landed (61,715 of them British): 24,970 on Gold Beach, 21,400 on Juno Beach, 28,845 on Sword Beach, and 7900 airborne troops.

11,590 aircraft were available to support the landings. On D-Day, Allied aircraft flew 14,674 sorties, and 127 were lost.

In the airborne landings on both flanks of the beaches, 2395 aircraft and 867 gliders of the RAF and USAAF were used on D-Day.

Operation Neptune involved huge naval forces, including 6939 vessels: 1213 naval combat ships, 4126 landing ships and landing craft, 736 ancillary craft and 864 merchant vessels. Some 195,700 personnel were assigned to Operation Neptune: 52,889 US, 112,824 British, and 4988 from other Allied countries.

By the end of 11 June (D + 5), 326,547 troops, 54,186 vehicles and 104,428 tons of supplies had been landed on the beaches.

And when people say ignorant comments such as "WTF is D-Day. Isn't that gay". I'm sure it is more important than a computer game even if it was a landmark. Thousands dying to stop a reign of terror spreading and basically ending a war that had already been going on for 5 years at this time... or a computer game... I hope you can see the winner.

 

[Jamous]

XDXDXD Proof that people are twat-tarded. D-day may need to be remembered, but people claim that Google is anti-AMERICAN, just because they'd focus on fun stuff, rather than grim reality. The bit that hacks me off is that they're only claiming anti-american rather than everybody else who partook in the war. So it's as I said. People are twat-tarded. Especially conservatives. Their name alone shows THAT.

 

[docbadwrench]

You mean a talking head at WorldNetDaily was upset about some imagined slight against his home country? How shocking. Yawn.

 

[Specter_]

Hey Todd;

Perhaps you've heard, Google's audience consists of more techies and people from outside of America than vets.

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

Not just commies, but commi-nazis!

 

[wasalp]

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.

wouldn't be awesome if they did though.

 

[paketep]

Warner Todd Huston is apparently an idiot with too much free time in his hands.

Don't use Google. Use Microsoft. We won't miss you.

 

[Martymer]

There are so many things wrong with this, I don't know where to begin! Oh well, here goes...

By not putting up the Soviet flag on the anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, were they anti-Russian? Oh, maybe they were just being anti-communist, I suppose... But wouldn't that make them pro-nazi Germany? Oh shit! And now they're doing it again! You know, refusing to acknowledge the anniversary of a nazi defeat... Seriously -- Google is run by fucking nazis!!! And since they clearly hate America -- OH FUCK!!! The nazis and Al Qaeda have joined forces, and are running Google together!!! What other explaination is there??? /facepalm

Interesting that no one's saying they're anti-British, anti-Canadian, anti-French, etc. Why aren't they complaining? America really does have a major inferiority complex...

 

[Simalacrum]

stupid people do stupid things.

In this case however it isn't Google who is being stupid. its the moaners.

 

[SirSchmoopy]

Who gives a shit about 65th? If it was 50th or 100th or hell even 75th they may have had some ground but 65th? Anti-american logo would be if the Tetris Blocks were falling on little pixeled allied troops. D-day doesn't make a for a good logo, jesus fuck.


Fucking idiots.

 

[Fenixhart]

Retarded Journalists are Retarded.


This is half the reason people think Americans are war-glorifying crazies.

 

[Doug]

"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."

So... not being pro-American == anti-American? I can see where George Bush's 'with us or against us' attitude came from.

 

[Ghost]

HURRR DURRR COS DA WHOLE WORLD IS AMERIKKAHN!!!!111

Seriously... the whole world uses google... and i'd say tetris is more relavent to google than the Allied invasion of Normandy.

 

[Randall Savage]

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.

You aren't alone. Seriously. This is a message to every American who still cares about this kind of crap (I know most people on here don't. Show this to the next person who does care!);

Get. Over. World. War. Two. You turned up late and have spent the last six decades overstating your importance in it while everyone else is trying to move on. I'll give you an analogy; When I turn up late for college, I don't spend the next month telling everyone that I made a comment that our tutor said was a "good point"...

That's going up on my wall. Best Analogy Ever.

 

[Major_Tom]

Bu fucking hu.

 

[The Political Gamer]

There are video games made in the U.S. today that let you play as the Russians and the Nazis and you get to beat up the U.S. and Google is un-American. /facepalm