Apple Removes Civil War Games From App Store Over Confederate Flag Usage [Updated]

[samiwas]

I'm one of the more liberal members of PRSI, and while I fully agree with the flag being removed from government buildings, I think all the rest of the fervor is going a little far. Removing video games? Flags selling like hotcakes on eBay? Outside of government buildings, this shouldn't even be a story.

Note: that does not mean I support the flag, nor does it mean that I don't think people who fly it aren't a little off.

 

[a0me]

Displaying the flag in modern society is one thing, but displaying it on the context of the era it is from is another.

Should we shut down all civil war museums too? Should Apple also remove all WW2 games that display a swastika? Should Apple pull all history textbooks from the ibook store that contain either a confederate flag or a swastika?

In Germany they do.

 

[Aspasia]

What next, Apple? Going to remove "Gone with the Wind" from your video offerings?

For what it's worth, I just ordered an Android phone. I'll vote with my pocketbook.

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
~Noam Chomsky

 

[Badagri]

 

[AlecZ]

Some people use the Confederate flag as a symbol of the South (in the U.S.). It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with slavery. I wonder if the colonial American flags are also banned. After all, they were flags of a slavery-supporting nation.

 

[aaronvan]

Here is a photograph of Winston Churchill before and after the tobacco-Nazis finished with it.

 

[michaelsviews]

Totally out of control, how long before putin invades the US

 

[Renzatic]

Here is a photograph of Winston Churchill before and after the tobacco-Nazis finished with it.

You'd think they'd have enough money to hire someone who can Photoshop for half a damn.

 

[Badagri]

Totally out of control, how long before putin invades the US

 

[sigmadog]

What we need is for Taylor Swift to write a protest letter to Apple.

 

[Badagri]

2 U-turns in the same week?

 

[ucfgrad93]

This photograph is emblematic of the dominant patriarchy's coercive violence against womyn. In fact, it's nothing less than rape. The photograph should be banned and all male participants should be found guilty, castrated, and then prosecuted.

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Agh, micro-aggression!!!

 

[tomwvr]

In Germany they do.

In Germany if they jumped off a bridge into a raging river would it be good if everyone else did it also?

 

[tomwvr]

Here is a photograph of Winston Churchill before and after the tobacco-Nazis finished with it.

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who the hell did that ??? Absolutely INSANE

 

[Badagri]

I can't believe I came across this. While it's a few years old. http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/dukes-of-hazzard-car-flag/

 

[MacLC]

And what foments the culture of gang killing?

Rap and hip-hop, the very genres at the forefront of Apple's obnoxious Beats Radio.

So true... for the sake of being "coal" and "relevant", Cook really sold out.

The swastika is thousands of years old and a very enchanting symbol. People in India, and a few other countries, still use it liberally.

Your comment goes to show how little you know of the flag and its meaning. Why don't we ban Bonnie Blue while we're at it and sweet tea...

When you attack a culture and way of life, expect strong opposition. Ignorance has never been a viable excuse in this life. Moderators, that was a generalization and not a personal attack.

Japan is another example. The Japanese word is manji. Manji are still used in certain religious celebrations and used to mark certain religious buildings on maps. The Nazis hijacked the symbol for some 13 years in power. Now everybody else in the world who used the symbol for over 13 centuries gets attacked for association with Nazism. That is sickening.

Besides, trying to pretend that the Nazis and slavery did not exist just increase the likelihood of repeating their mistakes. fwiw slavery continues to this day in much of the world. It is even encouraged by many nations. Do we ban their flags too?

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

I'm one of the more liberal members of PRSI, and while I fully agree with the flag being removed from government buildings, I think all the rest of the fervor is going a little far. Removing video games? Flags selling like hotcakes on eBay? Outside of government buildings, this shouldn't even be a story.

Note: that does not mean I support the flag, nor does it mean that I don't think people who fly it aren't a little off.

This I agree with. But of course companies are milk this for good publicity and avoid future PC issues.

 

[dragje]

This is getting way out of control...it's a game....

I agree. It's also, in many cases, played out in a historical context. How can you take a battle between 'The Union' waving with the well known American flag and the 'Confederate States of America' waving a purple flag with a smiling yellow emotion on it seriousness? It's a rhetorical question....

 

[Tech198]

Apples rules may be ridiculous at times.

 

[chaosbunny]

Thanks to the banking cartel sponsored think tanks our political correct overlords are there to prevent us from committing thoughtcrimes. Let's burn all history books, NOW!

 

[doelcm82]

I agree. It's also, in many cases, played out in a historical context. How can you take a battle between 'The Union' waving with the well known American flag and the 'Confederate States of America' waving a purple flag with a smiling yellow emotion on it seriousness? It's a rhetorical question....

You might be able to take it seriously if you were able to stomach a war game where you could only build battlements along the borders of a hexagonal grid. The screenshot above doesn't look all that realistic. You could make the two sides red and blue, or blue and grey, and it wouldn't affect the playability of the game.

Perhaps Apple will reverse this decision after a few days, and people will rush in and buy them, the way my aunt rushed out and purchased guns after Bill Clinton was elected President in 1992 out of fear that the Clinton administration was going to make gun sales illegal (she later killed herself with one of those guns). People who have no interest in arranging troops and supplies in a honeycomb pattern (the way they did in Civil War times) will buy these games in the name of free speech, and Apple will take its 30% cut.

 

[dragje]

What about 'nazi's' then? Indiana Jones The Raiders of the lost ark? The badguys walk around with the well known swastika symbol which is by all means not less controversial....

I think Apple has gone to far in this.

 

[dragje]

You might be able to take it seriously if you were able to stomach a war game where you could only build battlements along the borders of a hexagonal grid. The screenshot above doesn't look all that realistic. You could make the two sides red and blue, or blue and grey, and it wouldn't affect the playability of the game.

Perhaps Apple will reverse this decision after a few days, and people will rush in and buy them, the way my aunt rushed out and purchased guns after Bill Clinton was elected President in 1992 out of fear that the Clinton administration was going to make gun sales illegal (she later killed herself with one of those guns). People who have no interest in arranging troops and supplies in a honeycomb pattern (the way they did in Civil War times) will buy these games in the name of free speech, and Apple will take its 30% cut.

I was referring to this ^^

What about 'nazi's' then? Indiana Jones The Raiders of the lost ark? The badguys walk around with the well known swastika symbol which is by all means not less controversial....

I think Apple has gone to far in this.[

 

[Meister]

In Germany they do.

Not the same thing. At all!

 

[dragje]

Not the same thing. At all!

I agree