{"id":320,"date":"2006-07-13T19:07:33","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T17:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/320"},"modified":"2006-07-13T19:07:35","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T17:07:35","slug":"sony-pulls-racist-psp-ads-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/320","title":{"rendered":"Sony Pulls &#8220;Racist&#8221; PSP Ads in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/296\">Sony&#8217;s supposedly racist PSP ad<\/a> here in the Netherlands.  It would appear that Sony has caved and is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/07\/12\/sony-pulls-psp-white-is-coming-ads-in-netherlands\/\">pulling the ads<\/a> that are causing so much controversy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad really.  They must have put some thought into it before they put the ads out there&#8230; so why give in when people get oversensitive about it?  If they made the decision to do it they should have stuck with it.   I think that pulling the ads now makes them more guilty than if they just ignored the whole thing and let people bitch to their hearts content. <\/p>\n<p>If the people at Sony are smart enough to be able to create the wide range of products they offer, surely to god they are smart enough to know that people (North Americans in particular) will cry foul at any chance.<\/p>\n<p>Bad, Sony&#8230; Bad!! (For pulling the ad I mean, not putting it out there in the first place)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I wrote about Sony&#8217;s supposedly racist PSP ad here in the Netherlands. It would appear that Sony has caved and is pulling the ads that are causing so much controversy. It&#8217;s sad really. They must have put some thought into it before they put the ads out there&#8230; so why give &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-life-in-nl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}