Yesterday afternoon, the US Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) posted a piece of disgusting propaganda that glorifies the idea of a militarized police state forcefully getting into individuals’s properties and companies and main them away in handcuffs and zip ties — all set to the basic Pokémon theme tune and utilizing quite a few items of clearly copyrighted imagery from the ‘90s TV present.
There’s no probability The Pokémon Firm, infamous for shielding their family-friendly fame and income with legal action, would let that fly, proper?
Don’t maintain your breath: The Pokémon Firm’s former chief authorized officer Don McGowan (who spent practically 12 years there, in addition to multi-year stints at Bungie and Microsoft) thinks there’s no way that his former firm would sue.
”Even when I used to be nonetheless on the firm I wouldn’t contact this, and I’m probably the most trigger-happy CLO [Chief Legal Officer] I’ve ever met. This can blow over in a few days they usually’ll be comfortable to let it,” he told IGN.
Why? One cause is that like some other executives Trump has beforehand and corruptly leveraged, a few of The Pokémon Firm’s leaders personally depend upon the US’s good graces: “A lot of their execs within the USA are on inexperienced playing cards,” he stated. Another excuse, he says, is that The Pokémon Firm doesn’t need the press.