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Apple Rejecting Violent App Screenshots for Infringing Long-Standing Policy

H2SO4 said:
You’ve not read the topic title have you? This is to do with screenshots. So what if they’re age restricted so are a lot of apps.
The screenshots, (read FRONT COVERS), are being censored. They poster you replied to was right. They can do the same for movies, (if they didn’t stand to lose money of course).
Front cover of the new Equalizer movie, on the iTunes Store;
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Right, because chances of 10 year old's browsing iTunes to spend £16 on a movie is just as equal as chances of them browsing AppStore for free games....:rolleyes:
 
BvizioN said:
Right, because chances of 10 year old's browsing iTunes to spend £16 on a movie is just as equal as chances of them browsing AppStore for free games....:rolleyes:
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All you have to do is be looking at movie to buy/rent, which ä kid might do, to see that horrid violence...
 
Reminds me of parents trying to protect their boy by keeping him in a bubble.

News flash for you, Apple, reality doesn't go away simply, because you don't believe in it, or in this case try to hide it.
 
KdParker said:
Really....I seriously doubt that number of live saved because of guns will even come close to the number of lives lost to guns.

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Vehicles...not so much

knives...more for cooking

Swoards...sure but how many of them are really out there causing mass killings?
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You can't run someone over? You can't stab someone? They are no less a weapon then a gun.
 
BvizioN said:
Let me summarize this....

Spoiled kids now can not see screenshots with weapons of violence on the app store!! First world problem and people here think this is so sad!!!

And then you wonder why this world is so fkd up!!
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In your opinion..........................
 
SirCheese said:
You can't run someone over? You can't stab someone? They are no less a weapon then a gun.
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Literally anything can be used as a weapon if you put your mind to it but the point is that vehicles and knives all have primary purposes (transportation, chopping vegetables, etc) not directly linked to violence whereas guns.... not so much.
 
yaboyac29 said:
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It's been demonstrated that playing video games increases visuospatial skills and some problem solving abilities. Those are abilities that could improve your surgery (if you happen to be a surgeon) skills (among many other real world activities). Further, it's been long-documented that exposure to violence in games and media has long-lasting effects on aggressive thoughts and tendencies. Now, I don't believe that those translate into increased violent crime (at least not directly) but denying the effects that environment (including media consumption) has on behavior is denying or ignoring decades of good scientific studies on human behavior (yes, there is psychological research that counts as good science).
 
DaveMcM76 said:
Literally anything can be used as a weapon if you put your mind to it but the point is that vehicles and knives all have primary purposes (transportation, chopping vegetables, etc) not directly linked to violence whereas guns.... not so much.
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Because pretending they don't exist is sure to solve all of society's problems.
 
Seriously Apple..... A gun ??? Is a gun a violent object, physically?
Take a look at every cartoon. They are more violent than a typical videogame
 
AnsonX10 said:
So now guns are violent to look at?
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apolloa said:
Phew, I thought for a moment there you were going to talk about in violence in games causes real life violence.
I agree with your post, not allowed to say naughty words or show sex, yet violence is OK and America seems to have a huge porn industry? Don't they even have their own Oscars or something? I don't get the thinking behind it. Still America is a free country mostly compared to others.
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Yeah, it's a mucky situation (the violent games one), but I fully believe that a "normal" person playing a violent game won't be affected. They might have a slightly altered state, like the excitement one might get from watching a superhero movie or whatever. It's a power fantasy. There's a buzz after it and for most of us it ends there. But violent people playing, reading, watching might feel encouraged by it. Games don't make violent people, violent people may be influenced by violent games... is my understanding.

The whole sex thing in the US is rather weird, as a European. Breastfeeding is frowned upon, topless sunbathing isn't a thing, yet there'll be a poster behind all this of a woman in her underwear.
 
Apple has requested that the movie studio responsible for Woody Allen's "Take the Money & Run" that they digitally blur Woody's gub.
 
KdParker said:
Really....I seriously doubt that number of live saved because of guns will even come close to the number of lives lost to guns.
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Not if you count guns owned by governments. Let's ban government ownership of firearms. They clearly can't be trusted to use them responsibly.
 
If Apple's decision on apps causes you pain leave. Whining on a forum is pathetic, like some so called hardcore gamers who get off on the violence.
 
BvizioN said:
Where have you been living.... for like the last 5 decades or so? Movies are age restricted and movies that contain violence have 18 restriction. A very clear warning shows up at the beginning of the movie too.
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So what? Movies can have restrictions too, but Apple isn't asking the movie studios to pixelate the guns, blood and violence on the movie posters.

What Apple should be doing, instead of making everything friendly for kids, is to limit what kids can see according to the parental restrictions put on the kids accounts.
 
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Apple likes to profit from the suffering of oppressed workers, but wants to take the moral high-ground when it comes to content. :apple:
 
NachoGrande said:
Of course it doesn't, it just desensitize you to those things and there are certain people that can't handle that. That is a poor example.
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yaboyac29 said:
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I suggest credentials might have something to do with it. Hard to play in the NFL without a contract. Hard to be a surgeon without a medical degree. Hard to be a lawyer without a law degree. Hard to be a chef without a culinary degree (or training. or a restaurant).

I also suggest that each of those examples might not MAKE you any of those tjings, but they can certainly inspire interest in those things. To wit: you develop an interest in anatomy through the surgeon game, or an interest in baking through the baking game, and that interest translates into practice/study that translates into becoming those things.

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I'd think if apple was serious about this they would censor the text as well. I hope they don't. Censoring the guns is bad enough.
 
Why must we have violence in games to make them entertaining? Are we so stupid that we can’t come up with something other than killing, blowing up things & people, maiming, mass distruction, blood, guts and guns to intertwined our kids and ourselves? When did violence become a commodity ?
 
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