Critical Miss: An Appeal

[Meatstorm]

Sounds similar to the Poem 'Not my Business'. I wouldn't care if they banned people using penis, nazi-style swastikas and beastality emblems but I would be pissed if they banned people using the religious-style swastika.

The problem is with the swastika, is that the first thing that comes to most people's minds when they see the "crooked cross" is a certain political party.

Something the Microsoft spokesman said when this censorship was announced was something like " There is no easy way to explain the meaning of your emblem." IE, while you may have the swastika as a religious symbol (Buddhism?) or any other symbol (Finnish Airforce icon, I think), there is no way to explain to everyone who sees it why you have it. For all they know, you have it to show your allegiance to the National Socialist Party.

I still haven't found anyone who would be personally offended by just seeing swastikas. It's true though that microsoft has all rights to remove them if they so choose, but it just seems rather overprotective. Sure they might as well just bann for everything that somebody might get offended for (like beastiality and goatse) and most likely well see that happening.

And you are right about the Finnish airforce logo. It does also have a swastika in it.

 

[GiantRedButton]

The last icon is a goatse, but with a penis, so why didn't she get banned earlier?
Could also be a greenhaired clown with a weird nose though.

 

[lacktheknack]

Seriously people. Hands up if you knew this comic was sardonic.

I figured it out at the second panel, I became positive at "tiny towel for their sad troll tears".

 

[Raithnor]

Microsoft isn't a democracy.

 

[lacktheknack]

qwuote me:

""""your a doosh bag...""""" <---- (they put me on probation for this)


[perfect example of how, if im not laughing, im going to make it so no one else will either]
[fuck you moderator]

I laughed, because you think you have sway, your spelling is hilariously awful, and you're going to get suspended/banned for mod sass.

So, your assertion that "no one else will [laugh]" has failed.

 

[McMarbles]

Trolls. Can't live with 'em, can't process 'em into a slurry-like substance to use as animal fodder.

 

[lacktheknack]

"""So, your assertion that "no one else will [laugh]" has failed"""

how did it fail?

Eh, I went back and read all your posts, so I have a clearer reference here.

Just because you CAN laugh at something doesn't mean you SHOULD. Imagine if your dog died, and someone stood of to the side and laughed while pointing for an hour. Would you be good with that?

 

[Melancholy_Ocelot]

While I hit Yes to "I accept the terms" when I joined XBL, I can't help but scoff at the lack of enforcement on Microsofts part.

I'm forced to interact with users in-game. I'm not forced to look at their avatar.

If anything a swastika is a shining beacon in a dark smelly void. A shining beacon that says "PUT ME ON YOUR IGNORE LIST."

I know to avoid people on the street with tin foil hats, but I can't recognize crazy people incognito.

 

[AngryFrenchCanadian]

I'd donate for that.

Edit: Pretty sure it was satyrical, guys. She doesn't actually compare it to the holocaust, she's just showing that those gamers perceive it like it was the holocaust, when if fact it's completely absurd.

 

[lacktheknack]

"""So, your assertion that "no one else will [laugh]" has failed"""

how did it fail?

Eh, I went back and read all your posts, so I have a clearer reference here.

Just because you CAN laugh at something doesn't mean you SHOULD. Imagine if your dog died, and someone stood of to the side and laughed while pointing for an hour. Would you be good with that?

YES, cuz im not an oversensitive "duecsch"...
I will see that someone else, is actually happy...
And acknowledge thier right to say hurtfull things...

Well, with that logic, imagine if someone thought threatening people with disembowelment and stalking was "funny". Should they be allowed to continue that?

NO. It's against the law.

Also, it's "douche" (now that you've wrecked the spelling a couple of times).

 

[Irridium]

Are people really this pissy over not being able to make stupid symbols?

In most servers on the PC, if you have a disgusting/offensive spray, you get either booted or banned. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should, and it doesn't mean nobody else should do something about it either. Because if you don't do something, someone else will.

It is your right to be an ass. But its MS's/Treyarch's, the admin's, and other's right to do something about it.

 

[EllEzDee]

So wait, people are being perma banned for having these apparently offensive tags? Are these just suspensions or what?
Didn't call of duty start out as a Nazi murdering game? Isn't there a Nazi murdering mini-game in black ops? Oh how i love Microsoft.

 

[Legion]

Comparing XBL bans to the holocaust is absurd and tasteless.

I imagine that this is the joke.

That the trolls who get banned act like they are being treated like holocaust victims because their "human rights" are being violated.

 

[lacktheknack]

"""So, your assertion that "no one else will [laugh]" has failed"""

how did it fail?

Eh, I went back and read all your posts, so I have a clearer reference here.

Just because you CAN laugh at something doesn't mean you SHOULD. Imagine if your dog died, and someone stood of to the side and laughed while pointing for an hour. Would you be good with that?

I probably wont laught with them, but i also wont call the cops and demand that they be crucified...
(unlike so many, sensitive xbl users, who didnt like my freakin name, cuz they have a mother)

do tell friend what would youy actions be? if I were laguhing at your dogs corpse, while were on the toopic and all...
(cudos to you, i would have never thought about making fun of someones dead pet, or laughing at charred jew remains, if it were not for your imspiration.)

I didn't mention Jewish remains...

And as to how I would respond?

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Your psychological scarring.

And despite what you seem to think, the general population are not oversensitive douches. Simple "crowd logic" says that you're just an INsensitive douche.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

qwuote me:

""""your a doosh bag...""""" <---- (they put me on probation for this)


[perfect example of how, if im not laughing, im going to make it so no one else will either]
[fuck you moderator]

You'd probably laugh at the burnt remains of the Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. Either that or you don't realize theres a difference between making a joke and joking about the deaths of several million people. Because that's what I'm getting from your posts.

Although being an asshole didn't really help...

im not deffending peoples right to put up swaztickas...
im proposing that because you dont not find a swazticka made of dicks funny, you want no one else to find it funny either...
facist much...
my way or they highway is what people like you promote...

edit: I dont think that death is funny! You are the one who had that thought first...
(even though its not your belief)

I'm not being facist. I'm being reasonable. If you want a penis in your symbol whatever, most people will see you as a dick for it, but whatever makes you happy. Or laugh, as you put it. Having a swastiska in your symbol on the other hand is a whole 'nother deal. The swatiska (to most people) brings to mind the horrors inflicted by the Nazi party before and during WW2. Putting a swastika in your symbol means you might as well be saying "I don't really care if 6 million people were murdered all just because of there ethnicity". Like I said before, there's laughing at something and then there's laughing while pissing on someones grave.

I not one of those people who believes in total free speech. There are some things that go too far, like hate crimes and such. Call me a facist if you want, but my point still stands. You can't dance on someone's grave then ignore people's protests by claiming their facist.

Plus you did buy the game on their system. You essentially agreed to play by their rules. If you don't like it, find another place that will let you do what you want.