The whole point of logo design is to make people imagine things. Though, generally, you want people to imagine more positive things and fewer negative ones.
I think it’s stretching it to declare that the octothorp of dicks is a swastika on the basis that you can see a swastika hidden in it if you squint and narrow your eyes, and lazy journalism to mention swastikas and then leave the implication of Nazi association hanging in Western minds without at least a nod in the direction of the Eastern tradition.
