The other day we ran a story about Nigeria’s ludicrousdecision to be offended by a jokeabout the infamous “Nigerian Letter” scam in Sony’s latest PS3 commercials. While most reasonable people would expect Sony to ignore such a stupid and needless complaint, it’s transpired that Sonyhas lost its ballsand apologized to the country for its perfectly acceptable joke. Not only that, the line has been cut from the advert.
The line has been changed. It originally stated, “You can’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Otherwise, I’d be a Nigerian millionaire by now.” It now says, “You can’t believe everything you read on the internet. That’s how World War I got started.”
So, when German officials gets upset over Sony making claims about World War I, will it then issueanothergroveling apology and cater to the reactionary whims of a handful of morons? I don’t get how companies can be bare-faced assholes to their own customers, but as soon as someone from another culture gets offended by a joke, they bend over backwards to please them. Utterly pathetic.
Sony should have told these arseholes where to get off. Just goes to show how much power the fear of looking slightly racist has over the average white rich man.
