Apple pulls Civil War games from App Store in ongoing controversy over Confederate flags

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  • Reply 21 of 117
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Rogifan View Post



    Maybe we can get Taylor Swift to one another letter to Apple explaining how stupid this is.



    I'd buy her album if she did that! <img class=" src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" />

  • Reply 22 of 117
    msanttimsantti Posts: 1,377member
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    Originally Posted by Rogifan View Post





    So I wonder when Apple remove references to the US flag. Some people are offended by that too.

    Believe me, there are plenty of people in the US offended by the US flag.

  • Reply 23 of 117
    msantti wrote: »
    Liberal over reach.

    Happens again and again.

    Connfederate flag causing so much butt hurt but now there is butt hurt over banning Civil War games.

    Oh well!

    You people got what you deserve.

    And deprive us of you using the Classical Latin phrase "butt hurt" twice in a sentence? Besides, aren't you needed elsewhere to be "butt hurt" that ACA subsidies were upheld?
  • Reply 24 of 117
    9secondko9secondko Posts: 929member
    So a Apple has a problem with HISTORY NOW?

    What?
  • Reply 25 of 117
    msantti wrote: »
    Believe me, there are plenty of people in the US offended by the US flag.

    They're mostly at ThinkProgress and Salon.
  • Reply 26 of 117

    From Game-Labs:

    Quote:

    Spielberg’s "Schindler's List" did not try to amend his movie to look more comfortable. The historical "Gettysburg" movie (1993) is still on iTunes. We believe that all historical art forms: books, movies, or games such as ours, help to learn and understand history, depicting events as they were. True stories are more important to us than money.

    Therefore we are not going to amend the game's content and Ultimate General: Gettysburg will no longer be available on AppStore. We really hope that Apple’s decision will achieve the desired results.



     

    I think I'll take the first two months of my planned Apple Music subscription money and put it towards what seems to be a pretty-well reviewed game. Available on Steam and GoG.

     

  • Reply 27 of 117
    netroxnetrox Posts: 1,490member
    Funny how those people are the same people who complain about illegals carrying Mexican flags saying it's an assault to our country yet have no problem waving Confederacy flag which is also an assault on our country.

    Pro-Confedderates are the biggest threat to our national security. They are hoarding guns, clinging to their Bibles, and refusing to respect different viewpoints.

    Cognitive dissonance at its best.
  • Reply 28 of 117
    nagrommenagromme Posts: 2,834member
    App Store Review Team motto:

    Blunder in Haste, Backtrack Tomorrow

    Really, these issues are avoidable. The process is broken.
  • Reply 29 of 117
    lkrupplkrupp Posts: 10,557member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Rogifan View Post





    So I wonder when Apple remove references to the US flag. Some people are offended by that too.



    Exactly. I’m offended by the U.S. flag because it represents unbridled capitalism, imperialism, racism, economic oppression. The law says I can burn it if I want to. Why is Apple continuing to allow this offensive symbol in its app store?

  • Reply 30 of 117
    9secondko9secondko Posts: 929member
    rogifan wrote: »
    Maybe we can get Taylor Swift to one another letter to Apple explaining how stupid this is.

    Post of the day.
  • Reply 31 of 117
    nasseraenasserae Posts: 3,167member
    Totally unnecessary.
  • Reply 32 of 117
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by netrox View Post



    Funny how those people are the same people who complain about illegals carrying Mexican flags saying it's an assault to our country yet have no problem waving Confederacy flag which is also an assault on our country.



    Pro-Confedderates are the biggest threat to our national security. They are hoarding guns, clinging to their Bibles, and refusing to respect different viewpoints.



    Cognitive dissonance at its best.



    There are like five people in the US who honestly want the Confederacy to come back. The rest of them left for Brazil.

     

    The biggest threat to 'national security' is the US Government.

  • Reply 33 of 117
    lkrupplkrupp Posts: 10,557member

    As if expunging the Confederate battle flag from public view will do anything to stop this kind of violence. Typical left-wing thinking process.

  • Reply 34 of 117
    Apple pandering once again to these clowns.
  • Reply 35 of 117

    Pussification of America in full swing now.  

  • Reply 36 of 117
    mstonemstone Posts: 11,510member
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    Originally Posted by AppleInsider View Post



    Apple is reportedly notifying developers such as HexWar Games that their apps have been removed because they include images of the Confederate flag "used in offensive and mean-spirited ways."

    They are not likely to reverse this policy. That would be a total PR disaster.

     

    It is not a complete censorship of all confederate flags - just the ones that are offensive and mean spirited. 

  • Reply 37 of 117
    The US flag in many of its configurations has flown over more slaves for longer than the "rebel" flag
  • Reply 38 of 117
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    Originally Posted by TheWhiteFalcon View Post

     



    There are like five people in the US who honestly want the Confederacy to come back. The rest of them left for Brazil.

     

    The biggest threat to 'national security' is the US Government.


     

    Have you even been to the South? Pro-Confederates, hoarding guns, clinging to Bibles, and refusing to respect different viewpoints actually exist in significant numbers. Southerners are still pissed off with the North.

  • Reply 39 of 117
    msanttimsantti Posts: 1,377member

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  • Reply 40 of 117
    msanttimsantti Posts: 1,377member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Elian Gonzalez View Post





    And deprive us of you using the Classical Latin phrase "butt hurt" twice in a sentence? Besides, aren't you needed elsewhere to be "butt hurt" that ACA subsidies were upheld?

    ACA is in itself another butt hurt on this nation.

     

    But thats for another thread elsewhere.

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