Nintendo Alerted After DHS Uses Pokémon to Promote ICE Raids
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·September 23, 2025ronsor
CharlesW
It's brand-damaging for the government to, for example, represent sexual predators of underage people (speaking here of accusations against Nery Garcia Linares, not the U.S. President) represented as Pokémon, especially with children as Pokémon's primary audience. Nintendo has successfully won several cases in similar scenarios by invoking brand tarnishment.
dfxm12
You're right, but Nintendo has a reputation for taking legal action against "clearly" fair use, including fan made stuff posted on social media.
This combined with WB having Trump's Dark Knight video pulled is probably why people bring it up...
incone123
When I was growing up, it was extremely common for left wing artists to rework and subvert corporate art. It is sad to see activists now so limited in their imagination that their strategy is to run to tell the corporate lawyers. If you wish for more corporate control of intellectual property, well I'm sure the Republicans and the Democrats will both be happy to oblige.
busterarm
Calls for Nintendo to step in and do what exactly? This would almost certainly meet copyright challenges on fair use grounds.
HeavyStorm
This could be viewed as smearing, which would be abuse. It's relating Pokémon to a politically charged subject at a minimum. I would also argue that it's a violent video. Nintendo could ask for a takedown on those grounds.
HeavyStorm
Another controversial post marked as "dead". HN must take a look about this systematic effort to erase out this kind of post from here.
nebula8804
We need some mechanism to display all the flagged posts, maybe a flag to show flagged posts? Of if HN is unable to update the codebase, maybe a scraper to show the flagged posts in an easy to use format. Right now I am stuck having to google for political topics (using site: filter) and looking for the posts that are buried.
asacrowflies
It's kinda insane how political this place is under the false guise of "neutrality". A real right wing echo chamber
HeavyStorm
Wouldn't go _that_ far, but surely there are people working to get rid of this kind of post, which is certainly a problem. And it should be easy to find out what accounts are abusing the "dead" flag and punish those.
docdeek
HN guidelines state that if it is a story that will be found easily on a mainstream news site, it is probably not a good submission for HN. I flag political posts fairly regularly because there are plenty of other places to have those conversations besides HN.
kulahan
HN is literally the only actually-balanced community I've seen on the internet.
asacrowflies
"balanced" as in the the constant ratchet effect of moving the reasonable overtone window more and more to the right under the false guise of "neutrality and civility"
This forum has a high proportion of unscientific nonsense that would have been viciously mocked by "hackers" at this forums founding. (Climate change and covid denial. Basic security fails from big corpos. Plaintext passwords etc)
This place is "balanced" the same way 4chan is . One of the last places these people feel secure in their insanity .
The cards are clearly parody (fair use), assuming they would even infringe copyright at all. I'm not sure what Nintendo is supposed to do, but I assume if they do anything at all, it would result in more tariffs (bad for their revenue) anyway.