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'Hide It Hillary' mobile game banned by Apple, title like 'Punch Trump' approved

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Re: 'Hide It Hillary' mobile game banned by Apple, title like 'Punch Trump' approved

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How does "Hide it Hillary" promote hate? It's satirizing something she actually did in real life. "Punch Trump", on the other hand, has violence in it, but even that is not sufficient to claim that it promotes violence.

As pointless as they may seem, the web has a long history of games allowing users to pretend to punch various celebrities, and the "punch famous person X" genre probably predates that. There have also been TV shows like Celebrity Deathmatch, and IIRC one popular show for teens/tweens had its main character use her computer to put the face of another character into a boxing simulation. I think the cat is out of the ba…

Very curious why some disagree with a factual description of the history of a particular genre of game..

Re: 'Hide It Hillary' mobile game banned by Apple, title like 'Punch Trump' approved

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I'd like to also add that it is incredibly chilling to free speech for a moderator to essentially tell me my opinion is unwelcomed here. Whether you believe it or not you become another tool of government oppression.

Regardless of whether you're expressing a pro or anti-government opinion, on Hacker News comments need to be civil and substantive —you have to actually say something meaningful with basis in reality. It's the genericness that's at issue here because it poisons the spirit of intellectual curiosity that is the basis for this site. We're all here to learn something, so we ask that comments say something.

You are being bias because of my views. They become de facto illegitimate because you do not like such views.
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