Comments on: Microsoft Blast from the Past: Ads Banned for Spurring Violence http://techrights.org/2008/11/05/ads-banned-for-spurring-violence/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: mike http://techrights.org/2008/11/05/ads-banned-for-spurring-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-32891 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:16:42 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/05/ads-banned-for-spurring-violence/#comment-32891 Well the advert was a bit bizarre – the whole ‘isn’t it fun to pretend-to-kill-absolutely-everyone-off-the-street’ is a little disturbing. I guess if nothing else it cements the xbox as a niche product.

But suspending kids for playing what is essentially just cops and robbers/cowboys and indians?

What the fuck is this world coming to?

]]> By: Ceno http://techrights.org/2008/11/05/ads-banned-for-spurring-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-32878 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:41:53 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/05/ads-banned-for-spurring-violence/#comment-32878 I mean, c’mon. the ad is ok, I liked it

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/11/05/ads-banned-for-spurring-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-32854 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:39:54 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/05/ads-banned-for-spurring-violence/#comment-32854 In Australia they did a stunt to crash PS3 launch parties, with beer offered to show the differences in price. But there are worse examples:

Former Miss Austrlia to sex up IT industry
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4157506a28.html

So THIS is why people want Windows!
http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=388

Jack Thompson Lays His Legal Sights on Halo 3
http://www.gamealmighty.com/story-individual/story/Jack_Thompson_Lays_His_Legal_Sites_on_Halo_3/

Halo 3 Korea Promotion Part 2 ~ ver1~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldn5m-vMLwA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joystiq.com%2F

WhatsWrongWithU
http://www.armchairempire.com/News/?p=187

Those Microsoft Vista ads are really bizarre
http://www.adjab.com/2007/01/15/those-microsoft-vista-ads-are-really-bizarre/

Microsoft patents Tivo for commercial breaks
http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7946&Itemid=1063

British Government Fires Back at EA & Microsoft
http://www.thegamereviews.com/story-1449-British-Government-Fires-Back-at-EA–Microsoft.html

Microsoft XBox Banned Commercials
http://www.mall.hk/news/2007/08/21/what-you-missed-xbox-iptv-and-bill-gatess-criminal-past-2/

]]> By: Shane Coyle http://techrights.org/2008/11/05/ads-banned-for-spurring-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-32853 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:18:29 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/05/ads-banned-for-spurring-violence/#comment-32853 Wasn’t there an MS print ad back when, in Australia perhaps, where they were pushing a student version of MS Office as a ‘cheaper’ alternative than having to sleep with a geek to get your papers written?

I actually liked that one.

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