I built this website. From scratch. Including the servers.
I'll refer US based grammar police to the H.W. Fowler and F.G. Fowler 1906 British usage guide The King’s English in regards to how I do quotes. I also spell colour with a u. Cheers.
Here's some footage of the minor riot where people who demonstrated against the ad posters, peacefully with signs, speeches and chants at Norrmalmstorg, then ran to the subway station Östermalmstorg and tore down every single banner. The police arrested two people for vandalism last night, and took some people into custody tonight - they hope to clear anything else up with the help of the CCTV in the subway.
http://www.expressen.se/tv/nyheter/politik/hundratals-stormade-tunnelbanestationen
I'll have an official statement from SL in the morning.
This is on Techdirt today too, check it out: Github Nukes Repository Over Use Of The Word 'Retard'
However, there are two things in that article I take issue with, 1:
"....but it couldn't be bothered to ask nixxquality (the person behind the offensive code comments)"
I hoped I had made it very clear that "retard" was in the original repo, and thus ended up in all the forks made from that, and not something that Nixx had added to the fork. I guess I could have been clearer. It is incorrect to say that Nixx is the person behind the offensive code comment. I said as much on twitter so that this misinfo doesn't take hold.
and 2:
"....There's nothing censorious about a private company deciding what it does and doesn't want..."
Actually, that's the definition of it. In this case Github is the entity suppressing speech (words) they consider objectionable.
There are now only 224,018 results searching on the word retard, so 459 projects have either been edited or removed from Github.
I believe our current outrage climate is partly caused by the tendency to jump in after only reading a headline, or watching the first few moments of a video.... The instant reply-ability we now have means we speed through the reading & understanding moments, and thus we hardly have a chance to learn or form an informed opinion. Thanks for continuing to watch the video shared by the Japanese+American couple, it's the one video I found with the best cross cultural insight from both angles.
I'm pretty stunned that so many people are reacting like this to an idea as old as the hills.
For more creative use of bleeping in commercials, see the more creative uses in McDonald's Bleep 2006, Knorr Bleep 2006, Allstate "Bleep" 2008, the US latin market Twix Bleep 2010 and the really ancient Guldkorn winner: Faxe (BLEEP) 1992 from Denmark, which IMHO is the best one.
Hi Anonymouso, and welcome. Protip: don't come armed with assumptions here.
In Sweden, where I am, the country where US children's TV host and actress had to fly to in 1962 in order to get an abortion which wasn't legal in the US at the time, this current Planned Parenthood organ harvesting news has shocked people here too. Nobody in Sweden follows a "US party line", I can assure you. ('cuz we're Sweden, duh)
However, in Adland ®, the land where advertising is King, no matter where we live and work in the world, pretty much everyone I work with agreed that using a children's movie (without securing the rights to use the characters!) to do a social media neener during a massive outraged media storm over the aforementioned videos was not only tone-deaf, but incredibly crass.
Your opinion may differ, but it's not "butt hurt" to see that it's an unwise move in such a storm.
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