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13 Dec 2003, 4:35am
Take Two Interactive , the publisher of the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, has announced it will remove several contentious phrases from future copies of the popular game.
Bloomberg became involved in a debate over the portrayal of the Haitian community in the game following protests at New York's City Hall, with Haitian-Americans - spurred on by sensationalist media reporting - claiming that the game encouraged racist violence.
The main objection of the groups is to a mission in the game where the central character is instructed to "Kill all the Haitians" - a statement made in reference to a Haitian drug cartel, rather than Haitians in general, but which has been taken entirely out of context by both the US media and the Haitian community groups.
Matters reached a head earlier this week when Mayor Bloomberg threatened Take Two with legal action if it did not remove the phrase from the game, stating that "if I don't get a decent response, we are going to do everything we possibly can."
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Bloomberg became involved in a debate over the portrayal of the Haitian community in the game following protests at New York's City Hall, with Haitian-Americans - spurred on by sensationalist media reporting - claiming that the game encouraged racist violence.
The main objection of the groups is to a mission in the game where the central character is instructed to "Kill all the Haitians" - a statement made in reference to a Haitian drug cartel, rather than Haitians in general, but which has been taken entirely out of context by both the US media and the Haitian community groups.
Matters reached a head earlier this week when Mayor Bloomberg threatened Take Two with legal action if it did not remove the phrase from the game, stating that "if I don't get a decent response, we are going to do everything we possibly can."
The full report