{"id":4198,"date":"2014-01-28T22:04:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T22:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2014-01-28T22:04:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T22:04:48","slug":"dear-coke-you-screwed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2014\/01\/dear-coke-you-screwed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Coke: You Screwed Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Olympics sponsor contends programming was to blame for responses that many considered antigay when pro-LGBT words were entered into various interactive portions of the brand’s site.<\/p>\n

Coca-Cola has apologized and removed the offending program after LGBT activists called out the company, a 2014 Winter Olympics sponsor, for promoting a social media tool that let users customize their own virtual can of Coke but refused to recognize certain words, including “gay,” “lesbian,” and “queer.”<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, AmericaBlog<\/i> uncovered<\/a> a South African website that invited users to “Share a Virtual Coke” but responded to submissions of pro-gay words with an error message reading, “Oops. Let’s pretend you didn’t just type that. Please try another name.”<\/p>\n

Tuesday morning, Coca-Cola published an apology on its website<\/a>, stating that the program was incorrectly formatted and that the website has been pulled down until the glitch can be corrected.<\/p>\n

Explaining that the “Share a Coke” campaign was intended to allow users to customize a Coke can with their own name in the brand’s iconic logo script, Coca-Cola acknowledged that the version hosted on the company’s South African site didn’t restrict submissions to names.<\/p>\n

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Via Advocate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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