Xbox Live Enforcement — No Swastika Logo

itwbennett writes "It's one of those questions that really should never come up, but as blogger Peter Smith points out, Stephen Toulouse, the head of Xbox Live enforcement, is used to fielding all sorts of strange questions. Recently, one of those questions was apparently 'Can I use a Swastika as my logo in Call of Duty: Black Ops?' When Toulouse responded with the obvious answer ('No, of course you can't, we'll ban you.') he was met with some pushback by people he refers to as 'contrarians' and 'internet pundits' who decided to educate him on the long and storied history of the swastika as a symbol of good fortune and how just because the Nazis used it, it doesn't make the symbol itself a bad thing. Toulouse covers the topic on his blog in a post titled Context and it's an interesting read if for no other reason than to get a peek inside the day-to-day issues the Xbox Live Enforcement team deals with."

Comments

Re:It's unnecessarily inflammatory

[BadAnalogyGuy]

I'm sorry. Were we discussing the iconography of temples in the game?

No? Then go fuck yourself.

Re:Plenty people use the British flags

[NotInfinitumLabs]

The British Raj famines alone killed more than the nazi holocaust (20-29 million). I'm not looking up the rest, if you're this ignorant of history, you need to do some serious reading.

Re:Hmmm, don't really like the guys tone

[PopeRatzo]

As someone who doesn't really get offended by mere words or pictures

Oh yeah? Let me show you a picture of your kid getting raped or your grandparents getting cooked in an oven and let's see if you get "offended".

It's the people who are above it all that are really beneath contempt.

Re:Hmmm, don't really like the guys tone

[BitZtream]

Lets see, who uses xbox live?

Those billions of dirt poor Asians that think its a great symbol ... or the Europeans and other westerners who think of it as basically pure evil?

Whats that? You didn't think about the fact that the guys target audience is a group of people that think of the symbol as evil and the group of people who think its good and peaceful make up exactly 0% of his target?

My god, its amazing what happens when you start actually looking at the whole situation rather than one idiotic little bit to prove your own point.

XBox Live isn't there to educate or expose people. It is not a public service. Your opinion does not match that of the majority of its customers.

When you are in the minority, you lose, sorry. You also utterly ignored his very points which I have re illustrated since you appear to be unable to read and comprehend it the first time.

Re:Buddhists and hinduists aren't educated (?)

[BitZtream]

Lets modify his statement for you retards then.

No educated person on the planet looks at the swastika symbol (...) and doesn't realize how it could be construed'

Of course you're also ignoring the difference between the Buddhist swastika and the German one, which is ironic considering you're trying to pretend you know so much more than everyone.

If you're going to pretend you know so much its probably a good idea to know that there are infact to several variations to the symbol by that name.

Or you could stop faking it, stop Googling to come up with some quick 'fact' to backup your post and stop pretending to be so much better than anyone else since you know about Buddism, you really don't have a clue and it shows.