{"id":8241,"date":"2004-03-04T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T09:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8241"},"modified":"2004-03-04T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2004-03-04T09:36:57","slug":"n-gage-ads-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8241","title":{"rendered":"N-Gage Ads Banned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Nokia just can&#8217;t win with its mobile gaming\/cell phone hybrid the N-Gage. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilemag.com\/content\/100\/344\/C2551\/\">MobileMag<\/a>, the Advertising Standards Authority has banned the Nokia ads that show various locations with subtext that described what happened there, i.e. a bathroom with the text &#8220;this is where I missed the rim&#8221; or a bus stop with &#8220;this is where I got further with Lara than anyone else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Apparently some folks had complained that the ads are sexually suggestive, or evoke situations in which crimes may have occurred, reminding victims of their suffering.<\/p>\n<p> Don&#8217;t worry &#8212; in case you&#8217;ve never heard of the Advertising Standards Authority, that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s a UK agency. We here in the US are still able to see these ads &#8211; bad as they may be (in quality, not taste).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Nokia just can&#8217;t win with its mobile gaming\/cell phone hybrid the N-Gage. According to MobileMag, the Advertising Standards Authority has banned the Nokia ads that show various locations with subtext that described what happened there, i.e. a bathroom with the text &#8220;this is where I missed the rim&#8221; or a bus stop with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8241\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;N-Gage Ads Banned&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}