Nintendo Alerted After Dhs Uses Pokémon to Promote Ice Raids
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The Department of Homeland Security used Pokémon characters to promote ICE raids, prompting calls for Nintendo to take action, but commenters debated the effectiveness and implications of such a response.
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This forum has a high proportion of unscientific nonsense that would have been viciously mocked by "hackers" at this forums founding. (Climate change and covid denial. Basic security fails from big corpos. Plaintext passwords etc)
This place is "balanced" the same way 4chan is . One of the last places these people feel secure in their insanity .
I don't know if it ever came back up, but you should go spend a little time on /b/ - you seem to have forgotten how bad that site is.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nintendo_litigation
This combined with WB having Trump's Dark Knight video pulled is probably why people bring it up...
For as long as there has been corporate art there have been artists and activists subverting it. Before corporate art, the same thing happened with religious art.
> It is sad to see activists now so limited in their imagination that their strategy is to run to tell the corporate lawyers.
This isn't a case of people tattling to Nintendo because some random person drew a comic they didn't like. This is people wielding what little power they have against the State.
> If you wish for more corporate control of intellectual property, well I'm sure the Republicans and the Democrats will both be happy to oblige.
I don't see how this cedes more power to corporations either. This doesn't involve or require Nintendo to flex some power they haven't used many, many times before.
Think of the children?