The puzzle game on his Android phone had been interrupted by a video showing Hamas militants, terrified Israeli families and blurred graphic footage. Over a black screen, a message from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the first grader: “WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT THOSE WHO HARM US PAY A HEAVY PRICE.”
Cassis, a 28-year-old barista from Brazil, said that the ad left her son shaken and she quickly deleted the game.
“He was shocked,” she said in a telephone interview last week. “He literally said, ‘What is this bloody ad doing in my game?’”
Reuters has not been able to establish how the ad came to her son’s video game, but her family isn’t alone. The news agency has documented at least five other cases across Europe where the same pro-Israel video, which carried footage of rocket attacks, a fiery explosion, and masked gunmen, was shown to gamers, including several children.
Capitalism is how that ad got in her son’s game.
…ads make their way into children’s video games
That’s the problem. Porn, war propaganda, candy, energy drinks, whatever. Ads should not be allowed in children’s games.
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FOSS games generally won’t have this issue
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why is she letting a 6 year old kid use a cellphone?
What a shocking revelation! Next thing they’ll tell me is that softcore drawn porn also makes it into children ads.
Guess we should just fold our hands and accept softcore porn and violent propaganda in ads targeting children then, huh?
Maybe they’re just living up to their handle (criticalmiss) and it’s a novelty account
Their whole schtick is garbage takes like that one
Their profile doesn’t load for me so I can’t confirm but I wouldn’t be surprised
what is your issue with what they said?
don’t you dare suggest porn shouldn’t be shown to children on lemmy or you will be quickly downvoted
