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Nintendo Fires Employee For Speaking About Job On a Podcast

Posted by timothy on from the sensing-a-theme-today dept.

An anonymous reader writes: You may not have heard of Chris Pranger before, but he's one of the localizers that works to bring Nintendo games over to the west. He recently talked about the localization process for a small podcast, providing Nintendo fans some details about how games make it from Japan to the western world. Nintendo's response to the fan interest in the game localizing process? They fired him, of course. It's unclear what statements in specific Nintendo objected to and Nintendo, so far, hasn't explained its decision.

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  1. Re:This doesn't seem unusual. by Marginal+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Zero tolerance policies cause more problems than they are worth - ALL the time.

    I'm sensing that you have a policy of zero tolerance for zero tolerance policies. Maybe it's time for a little leeway in this area.

  2. Sigh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    freedom of speech (a constitutional right just about everywhere except North Korea)

    Show me on the doll what government censored his speech.