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Swastika multiplayer emblems in Call of Duty: Black Ops can get you banned from Xbox Live

Posted Nov 21, 2010 at 12:29PM EST by Karl B.

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: call of duty: black ops, xbox live

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Ah, swastikas. You'll probably have seen the zombies in Call of Duty: Black Ops wearing these symbols, but don't even think of using them as your multiplayer emblem. That'll just put your GamerTag on the bus to Banville.

Replying to a Twitter query regarding the use of the swastika as an in-game multiplayer emblem, Xbox Live director of policy and enforcement, Stephen Toulouse, replied thusly: "Yes, you will get banned using a swastika as your Black Ops emblem. I don’t care if you “just like the design”."

Twitter doesn't really allow for more in-depth explanations, so he also posted a longer missive on his blog, part of which reads:

The Xbox LIVE profile and in game content you create is accessible by everyone. You do not have the context inside of it to explain your long winded contrarian view that your pithy text that violates the Terms of Use or Code of Conduct is actually intended to change people’s minds about a commonly held understanding.

It’s not political correctness, it’s fundamental respect. If you think the swastika symbol should be re-evaluated by societies all over the Earth, I think that’s great. Your Xbox LIVE profile or in game logo, which doesn’t have the context to explain your goal, is not the right place to do that.

So yeah. Swastika multiplayer emblem = ban. That's a good equation to remember if you want to keep enjoying Black Ops on Live.

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Thank the Lord there is at least one remaining person in the US that has a brain...you guys should definitely go to the
middle of Times Square and start yelling completely untrue things about famous people and use all the profanity you can possibly come up with. When the police come and escort you away be sure to use your freedom of speech right...let me know how that works out for you.

# exactly — narutosaiyan 2010-11-22 12:20

this also makes me think of Medal of Honor. Because it seems some guy from a cave can be playing as a US marine but we cant play as the Taliban? who has more freedom?

# Microsoft you FAG — ...... 2010-11-21 18:28

I like using the Swastika in purpose of just using it because it looks "cool" and the fact that it shows me who the whiny little turd is in the game and block him/her for her stupidity, but send a message to let them know the history behind it

# The PS3 is a lost cause — SnowSerpent 2010-11-21 18:31

You should see the perverts on PSN! This is why you gamers need to grow up and stop being sickos!

Black Op's is a childish play ground with kids in it nice going parent's!

# Good — Ajc 2010-11-21 18:55

Should ban people for doing stupid things.

+1 # hmmmm... — ........... 2010-11-21 19:41

I can see where they are coming from, because if you've ever researched the holocaust you should without a doubt know that it's just common respect to not put those people (or their families) through any more than they've already been through...however, I have to say that I've seen so many pictures of gentalia on people playercards that I find this interesting at the very least. Remember kids: Swastika = Ban; Genatalia = Good to Go!

# RE: hmmmm... — tunacan 2010-11-22 18:01

hahahahahahaha good to go

# jokker — joker3315 2011-01-26 15:57

WOW....LMAO

+1 # im gunna use it — .............. 2010-11-21 20:24

just to piss microsoft of it will be worth it

# hmmm — fearlubu 2010-11-21 20:54

i like how everyone totally forgot that the nazis (idk if it was hitler's personally idea) took that swastika from buddhism. actually the swastika was used all over the world, yo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

# RE: hmmm — UltimaXX 2010-11-21 23:23

That was pretty much implied in the article. I don't think anyone missed it.

# RE: Swastika multiplayer emblems in Call of Duty: Black Ops can get you banned from Xbox Live — Beefstah 2010-11-21 20:57

i can already see lawsuits if someone actually gets banned for using it. before nazi germany it was a symbol for peace. seems microsoft forgot this history lesson. so how does using it violate the code of conduct?

+2 # RE: Swastika multiplayer emblems in Call of Duty: Black Ops can get you banned from Xbox Live — PS3 Owner1 2010-11-21 21:06

This isn't exactly fairness to the client, but I don't really care.

fearlubu is right.

# RE: Swastika multiplayer emblems in Call of Duty: Black Ops can get you banned from Xbox Live — UltimaXX 2010-11-21 23:22

Why are people getting so pissed off over this? Sometimes I feel as if internet nerds just like to get up in arms about everything and anything just because they can.

The reasoning behind banning the swastika is completely valid. It's allowed in the games, because of the historical context; you fight Nazis, nobody's going to misunderstand anything, because there's nothing to understand. Nazis existed in WW2, the game is set in WW2, ergo, Nazis are there for you to fight.

When some kid sticks a swastika into his emblem, or decides to stick WPWW or some other stupid Nazi-inspired gimmick into his handle, the immediete assumption is that they believe in that shit, hence the offense. I'd certainly feel offended if some wanker had a swastika engraved onto his gun!

# Waffen SS — Waffen SS 2010-12-08 03:35

my screen name is Waffen-SS, does that make me a believer?

# Burning Flags and Wearing Sswastikas — pixelpunk 2010-11-22 01:53

You can burn a US flag and not go to jail, yet you can't wear a swastika in a videogame.

I hear class action in the distance.

# how about some re evaluation — Puntymario 2010-11-22 03:04

what about people who use dicks as fucking emblems. i swear what kind of enjoyment do they get out of that other than they like cock.

+1 # RE: how about some re evaluation — Gama 2010-11-22 04:52

looks like you answered your own question.

# total bs — zotex 2010-11-22 03:06

This is just stupid, why ban people over an emblem?! If that's the case they should bann a these assholes with penises and graphic images. Ill just start reporting them too :-/

# RE: Swastika multiplayer emblems in Call of Duty: Black Ops can get you banned from Xbox Live — Virgoprince 2010-11-22 06:29

@puntymario they do it because that's the closest there ever going to get to having sex, because there LOSERS

# RE: RE: Swastika multiplayer emblems in Call of Duty: Black Ops can get you banned from Xbox Live — UltimaXX 2010-11-22 12:27

You're projecting mate.

# well duh — Mondo 2010-11-23 00:24

whoever decided this is definitely a jewish

# RE: Swastika multiplayer emblems in Call of Duty: Black Ops can get you banned from Xbox Live — yes 2010-11-23 01:22

stop bitching im putting the swastika as my emblem fuck it.

-1 # Lol — Coco Davis 2010-11-23 05:52

M!cro$oft sucks balls

# o .o — urbz1988 2010-11-23 13:44

wat about the ppl that have the horse effing the pig or the dick with cum coming out it? im seriously the game is rated M 4 mature not rated I 4 Immature.

# RE: Swastika multiplayer emblems in Call of Duty: Black Ops can get you banned from Xbox Live — truk 2010-11-24 21:20

right..cause people who use the swastika aren't being completely racist..

you guys are idiots

# lol.. — Kaden 2010-11-27 10:14

I do think its kind of stupid, and i realize what fearlubu mentioned, and i agree with ultimaxvii.

The only thing is though, MS is the only one doing anything about anything like that. you can't police everything, swastikas in anything else that allows you to alter your name most likely exist too. is MS gonna go after them too or are they gonna force the hand on PC and ps3 as well to ban people from using it? just because one view doesn't like it, doesn't mean that everyone else has to agree to it, which is why i think it is quite funny that the blog writer doesn't allow comments on there. Simply for the fact that he's being flammed to death and most likely getting tons of hate mail.

# correction — Kaden 2010-11-27 10:15

i said just because one view doesn't like it, i meant one company (that black ops is on, in this case, MS)

# RE: Swastika multiplayer emblems in Call of Duty: Black Ops can get you banned from Xbox Live — AdamForExample 2010-11-28 18:41

Get a PS3 you dont get banned there because the owner is japanese ´they wont bann the people who were on their side i have a swastika and had it from the beginning people are just taking it as a joke... PS3 more mature players

# (PS3) — Heil Hitler PS3 2010-12-01 00:22

listen to the last message LISTEN TO THIS! the ps3 has better graphics the gay seXBOX ok you won't get banned and i have a swastica for ps3 all hail ps3 it is better!

# Sir — W.S.Churchill 2013-03-04 17:59

On the matter of those single-celled scum who think it's artistic and expressive to use a swastica for their emblem, post 1945. Anybody who uses the Nazi version of the swastica for anything whatsoever is laughingly, or ignorantly, promoting and glorifying racism,facism and genocide. Oh you are so amusing aren't you? In simple terms, you are just a bunch of class-A pricks, deserved of a Kharmic early death. So would all those simple-minded Adolph wannabees and purile jokers just crawl back up inside their mama's, and slowly rot away. You're not funny. You're not clever, and You are wasting the Earth's natural resources simply by existing. You should have done unto you what the victims of the Nazis had done to them. G.F.Y. A curse on the lot of you.

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