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Rockstar Censors GTA After Haitian Outcry

Posted by simoniker on from the ulala-and-morolians-next dept.

Thanks to VE3D for carrying a statement from Take Two/Rockstar announcing the removal of alleged anti-Haitian content from future copies of Grand Theft Auto:Vice City, after a furore which started last month following a CBS TV segment on the game. The controversy, which even had New York's Mayor Bloomberg weighing in on the game's rival gang-related urgings to "Kill all the Haitians", has ended with Rockstar's press release indicating: "We believe that recent media coverage has taken certain statements made in the game out of context... nevertheless, we are aware of the hurt and anger in the Haitian community... we will remove the objectionable statements from future copies of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City."

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  1. =O by Mike+Hawk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Owned.

  2. Re:Side Notes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bloomberg is a fucking idiot, that should explain it all.

    --Anonymous NYC resident

  3. Re: Or how about this.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Consider this...

    You can refer to the British as Brits, and the Scottish as Scots, or even the Slovakians as Slovaks, and Canadians and Canucks, or Russians as Ruskies, and it's all OK. But the second you use the same sort of abbreviations for Japan, China, Pakistan, etc, suddenly it's racist.

    WHY?

  4. It's like the word nigger. by DAldredge · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If white people say it, it is the most horrible word in the English language and who ever spoke it is guilty of being a racist. But, when it is used in urban music or on the street by nonwhites suddenly it is ok.

    I wish someone would explain the logic of that to me.