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Microsoft Quickly Revises "Sexting" Ad For Kin Phone
theodp writes "Microsoft's Kin mobile phone project came under fire as Consumer Reports and others pointed out that a promotional video looked like an inappropriate endorsement of 'sexting,' prompting a quick edit and an apologetic tweet. 'The video,' observed Consumer Reports, 'includes a downright creepy sequence [beginning around 0:33] in which a young man is shown putting a Kin under his shirt and apparently snapping a picture of one of his naked breasts. The breast is then shown on the phone's screen, just before the guy apparently sends it to someone. Next we see the face of a young woman, seemingly the recipient, with an amused expression...'"
Okay, I could see a problem if it were a female breast ... but who the fuck thinks that sending a picture of a male breast is "sexting"?
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
Mother's hide your daughters. I hear 'The Nippler' is in town.
Oh good lord, how uptight does our society need to be?
It's a contradiction too, because sexualized youth seems to be perfectly acceptable as long as it's from a Mickey Mouse Club alumni that promises abstinence.
People have bodies.. get over it.
Sexting is a "phenomena" of prudes having to face the fact that not everyone experiences the same reservations as them about nudity. No-one is forcing them to participate.
How we know is more important than what we know.
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Clearly I was a teenager in the wrong millennium.
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They could have shown the Blue Balls Of Death.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
The Kin series of phone seems to be all about easy sharing with a green button dedicated to that called the "Kin Spot"... but well, that can be taken the wrong way, can't it?
Sexting with kin? Now your incest can have more manboobular visuals? What?
I am sure that it is part of the advertising plan to be "forced" to withdraw sensational ads as a way of gaining extra publicity. I have never seen this ad, and only once heard about the Kin phone, but now I have been exposed (oh dear) to the campaign as a news item.
I am sure that if nobody complained then the ad executives would plant their own complaints in the news just to get people to talk about it. How many times do you hear news reports about people being outraged without ever saying who those people are. I imagine that it is rare to need to resort to doing their own complaints, because the people who get offended by this are so predictably vocal. And who cares if you piss them off, because the target market are young people who think sexting is OK and who would be quite happy to rebel against the prudes.
Seriously? Is people who think like this a large enough fraction of their market base that they actually feel like they have to appease them?
The only reason to defend sexting is if you like child pornography. You aren't a ... pedophile... are you?
I mean, think of the children.
The children know that Freedom is what we believe in our hearts to be morally right! And we here in America love our freedom, no matter what some experts would like us to believe! After all, 9/11 happened because they hated our Freedom, so anyone that can't think of the children might as well be terrorists. It's about Family Values.
Family, Faith and Freedom are what separate us and make us the greatest nation in the world!
God Bless America.
"All these years believing you're the signified monkey, only to find out you're just a big hunk of nobody cares."
Creepy? Really? What exactly is 'creepy' about it?
Unless you mean 'likely to make a large section of the population feel uneasy because they've been cowed into a pathetic state of guilt and self-censorship in the face of a narrow-minded and hypocritical moral hysteria of a small minority'. Yeh you're right, that is creepy.
I mean, think of the children.
The Thought Police would like a word with you. Come along please.
"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing. " ~ Poe
'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' - Mao Tse-tung
prompting a quick edit and an apologetic tweet.
How quick was it? Was it so quick, that you'd think they had the edit prepared in advance, just waiting for the "outrage"?
Come on guys, those are old, old tricks.
So, anyway, Microsoft have a new mobile device again with a hip ad again, awkward name again, that's trying to compete with a similar device from Apple again. Best of luck to them.
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
Microsoft's Kin mobile phone project
Hate to be a 'kin grammar Nazi but there's a 'kin apostrophe missing there (to indicate missing letters - actually there should be one after as well, but that looks silly and the "g" is usually silent anyway).
As in: "'kin hell, some 'kin perv has sent me a 'kin picture of his 'kin moob! Ugh, its 'kin mingin'!"
They've failed to 'kin notice that, but they're worried about 'kin man tits?
(Plus, Kin Sexting sounds a bit incestuous...)
(To appease Pratchett fans, perhaps the next Android phone will be the "-ing"...)
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
While the ad only showed a mans chest, that is not the point of the controversy.
The point is that the ad was basically advocating sexting.
I am pretty sure no one was mad about the ad containing a males chest.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.