MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars

Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by notyourday on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:51PM (#23717273)

Ah, so they did it all over NYC subway a few years ago. To a point where I had to do a double take before I realized it was just an Amazon promo.

There are quite a few Eastern Europeans and Jews in NYC. Why was that OK?

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by NovemberWhiskey on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:15PM (#23717520)

Since precision is important: no, there were not swastikas. There was a symbol of an eagle (the Reichsadler) over an 'iron cross' symbol as part of the advertising. You can find that fairly easily by looking at an image search on your favorite search engine.

n.b. the iron cross symbol is still used in Germany for e.g. the roundel of the German Air Force.

I don't doubt that the design would fall afoul of the MS content guidelines as I'm sure perching the Reichsadler on top of the iron cross would be the kind of thing they mean by "contextual clues".

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by rsynnott on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:25PM (#23717620)

Wasn’t aware of that. I’d argue that that wasn’t okay, personally, and that the city shouldn’t have permitted it.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by notyourday on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:59AM (#23723565)

MTA said its policies were not violated as it was not political advertisement.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by tedunangst on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:54PM (#23717296)

Are there pictures of these subway swastikas? (no, of course not.)

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by Dylan16807 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:04PM (#23718073)

https://cms.prod.nypr.digital/images/62499/fill-661x496/

Found this on Gothamist. Can you point to the swastika?

Or is this a different NYC Subway campaign for The Man in The High Castle?

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by notyourday on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:59AM (#23723559)

There was at least one set of ads of Smith standing with in a profile with swastika on his sleeve visible.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by rsynnott on Friday July 03, 2020 @11:33AM (#23724874)

Ah, yeah, that's not at all as bad as I was thinking.

Though still a bit... off, to be honest.

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