Apple Removes American Civil War Games from the App Store
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Apple Removes American Civil War Games from the App Store
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Re: Apple Removes American Civil War Games from the App Store
#2This is clearly going too far.
Re: Apple Removes American Civil War Games from the App Store
#3Germany has a law about this, with some exceptions that would specifically apply to cases like this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_§_86a
When a movie like Iron Sky has no problem being shown in German cinemas with the swastika left untouched, because it's clearly art, then it should be fairly obvious to Apple that banning historically accurate representations in historically accurate interactive art is far overreaching; though not legally, but ethically.
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#4Banning the symbol will only add credit to and strengthen the idea.
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#5This is clearly going too far.
There really doesn't need to be any other comments on the thread either. This sums it up nicely.
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#6I thought the Union flag had somewhere around 35 stars.
It's Apple's playground, they can do whatever they want. This seems ham fisted to me, but i understand the desire to simply eradicate all evidence. They're not in the business of historical accuracy. They're in the business of selling stuff. bad feelings about imagery interferes with selling stuff.
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#7This is clearly going too far.
I agree. It's one thing to stop selling actual Confederate flags, it's another to try and scrub any mention of a historical event or depiction of a certain symbol in context.
Apple is certainly within their rights to do this, but I think it's silly and impulsive.
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#8This is absolute BS. Using a flag in a historical context should not be censored. Did they sensor history apps? Once again, app developer take a hit while "real authors / artists" don't have to deal with this crap.
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#9So what about all WWII games that have a swastika, or any number of historical flags that are simply referencing history rather than supporting an ideal?
This is plain ridiculous.
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#10It is a historical reference. This clearly was not well thought out.