Coca-Cola faces a major backlash on this bottle
You can share a coke with anyone ... almost.
If you were slightly confused whenCoca Cola Presented their campaign "Share a coke" a few years back, you were not the only one. When you picked up abottle who read,Share a coke with Michellebut you do not haveknow Anyone named Michelle, then ... What was the point, right? Well, more recently, Coke has innovated so you can customize your label to share a coke with whom you want, except that some users have found that the system censures certain names, while it seems to break insults. As a result, the coke took an unexpected position.
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How does the Coca-Cola Custom Bottle Campaign Works:
Thisis A pretty cool offer: if you get on the internet and look for a phrase likeCike Custom BottlesIt is relatively easy to locate a link that takes you directly to a page on the Coca-Cola site where you can connect the name you want to go to a bottle of coca-cola glass of eight ounces. In four simple steps, the system allows you to click on your Coca-Cola product choice (the choices are Coke Classic, Coke Diet and Coke Zero), and choose a special occasion or a theme (such as birthday candles, Graduation plugs, or a leading sign in the month of pride with a rainbow label).
From there, you can type a name or phrase you want to add to the bottle and for six dollars per bottle, you can have shipped them directly to you. (Without going through the purchase process, it's not clear for how long it takes for the bottles to arrive.)
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Except that some users have found a problem.
The daily point reported that some users who tried to customize aCoke bottle With some names or expressions seemed to discover that their personalization request was not available ... and, if that's true, the censor seems to refer to political or ethnic demands. This week, Twitter User @tha_rami has tweeted: "Get a mistake because Coca-Cola thinks Palestine is offensive .. Do not bother any error because Coca-Cola thinks Israel is not offensive."
This was also the case for other customization requests.
The same user would have tested other sentences: "Oh, and sorry @osamadorias, I can not share Coca-Cola with you. Osama is forbidden. And Mohammed can not also have Coca-Cola while we are there . " He continued: "Well done, @cocacola. Just prohibit the most common name on earth, because you do not consider Arabs or Muslims."
In addition, from our source:
The daily dowry checked on Tuesday afternoon that the Coke bottle customization page seems selectively blocking sentences or words. For example, "Blue Vies the material" did it on a bottle; "Black life imports" did not do it. The word "slavery" would not pass, but "forced labor" did.
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Here's how Coca-Cola answered.
Specific message users get when they try these names and phrases are:
"Oops! It looks like the name you have asked is not approved. Names may not be approved if they are potentially offensive for other people, trademarks or celebrity names. We worked hard for Get this list, but sometimes we make up. If you think it's a mistake, please contact our customer care team. Otherwise, please try again, keep it fun and in the spirit of sharing! "
A spokesman for Coca-Cola would also have said thatCNN company:
"We continually improve our share of a coke customization tool to make sure it is used only for its desired objective ... Words or phrases that have appeared in the tool for previewing the tool can not necessarily be approved, but are rather words. We have not already been evaluated ... The actual bottles are not made with words incompatible with the intention of the program. We clarified in the method of preview the proposed language tool may require further examination. "
An attempt on Thursday morning still did not seem to allow the name of Osama to pass through.
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