{"id":531167,"date":"2010-04-16T20:40:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T00:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=29705"},"modified":"2010-04-16T20:40:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T00:40:30","slug":"microsoft-semi-apologizes-for-highly-offensive-man-boob-in-kin-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/531167","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft semi-apologizes for highly offensive man-boob in Kin ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/hmmmm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hmmmm\" width=\"620\" height=\"206\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29706\" \/><br \/>\nWe found it pretty ridiculous when Consumer Reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/04\/14\/consumer-reports-calls-out-microsoft-for-advocating-sexting-in-kin-ad\/\">made a big deal<\/a> about a pretty tame reference to playful, romantic MMSing. Really, now. Microsoft is the last thing making kids send naughty pictures to one another. But I guess Microsoft didn&#8217;t want the drama, so they&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Safer_Online\/status\/12306057675\">apologized<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They deleted the offending portion of the video, but if you&#8217;ll be so kind as to click the following YouTube thing you can still see the uncut version put up by CR.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-29705\"><\/span><br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rfpAkNyHAtQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rfpAkNyHAtQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>As shocking as it was a few days ago. Which is to say, not shocking at all. But yes, the children have been saved.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techflash.com\/seattle\/2010\/04\/microsoft_cuts_part_of_kin_video_after_sexting_complaints.html\">TechFlash<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/1wwgsvMUearpCTNEFcvevvwWAIs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/1wwgsvMUearpCTNEFcvevvwWAIs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/1wwgsvMUearpCTNEFcvevvwWAIs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/1wwgsvMUearpCTNEFcvevvwWAIs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=LmJgvMjUbrI:VwLy5gWzp-0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=LmJgvMjUbrI:VwLy5gWzp-0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=LmJgvMjUbrI:VwLy5gWzp-0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=LmJgvMjUbrI:VwLy5gWzp-0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=LmJgvMjUbrI:VwLy5gWzp-0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We found it pretty ridiculous when Consumer Reports made a big deal about a pretty tame reference to playful, romantic MMSing. Really, now. Microsoft is the last thing making kids send naughty pictures to one another. But I guess Microsoft didn&#8217;t want the drama, so they&#8217;ve apologized. They deleted the offending portion of the video, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":944,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/944"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}