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Apple Pulls All Civil War Games From The App Store
We have been following the Confederate flag scandal with bemused detachment, painfully aware for what it is: i) a welcome distraction from the real and very profound problems this country faces and ii) the latest escalation in what has been a relentless attempt to polarize the nation over the past several years, only instead of political ideology, gender, sexual preference, ethnic background, and most certainly wealth, this time the emphasis is on geographic origin and an implied relapse to the days of latent the pre-civil war "racism."
And yet while most such scandals fizzle quickly after the have heat their peak only to be replaced with the next day's watercooler talk as the following projection by Google trends predicts...
... this particular snafu is showing a particular determination to stay at the front pages. What is more surprising, is the apparent willingness of countless third parties, from the media, to retailers, to pundits, to keep this topic front and center in the public's consciousness.
To an extent all of that was expected. However, even we were stunned when we learned moments ago that none other than that ultimate "arbiter" on all things moral and ethical, Apple itself, entered the fray with a decision to remove all Civil War games from its App Store!
According to MacRumors, "Apple has removed seemingly all Civil War games from the App Store for displaying the Confederate Flag in "offensive and mean-spirited ways," our sister website TouchArcade has learned. Apple has sent a removal letter to affected developers to inform them that their app does not comply with Section 19.1 of the App Store Review Guidelines."
"19.1 Apps containing references or commentary about a religious, cultural or ethnic group that are defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited or likely to expose the targeted group to harm or violence will be rejected."
MacRumors further adds that it did do a spot check of the App Store and can confirm that Apple has removed dozens of Civil War games depicting the Confederate Flag. Most educational or generic Civil War apps remain available on the App Store.
A sampling of the Civil War games removed from the App Store:
- Ultimate General: Gettysburg
- AAA American Civil War Cannon Shooter
- Civil War: Hidden Mysteries
- Civil War The Battle Game
- Civil War Defense
- Civil War Battle Defense
- 1861 A Civil War Rebellion
- Civil War: 1862
- Civil War: 1863
Which begs the question: is the Confederate Flag scandal reaching beyond the ethical implications of last week's Charleston shooting and is it actively become an attempt to rewrite a "shameful" period of US history?
What's next: Amazon "censors" chapters on the US Civil War from history textbooks?
And just why are tech companies getting involved in what is, at its core, a political issue and by implication, censoring free expression and limiting the revenues of those hard working programmers who created the above listed games?
Finally, where does such selective "pre-screening" of what is deemed appropriate for public consumption end and who makes that determination? Because at last check every single nation that imposed such a "filter" to its own history no longer exists.
And in light of this dangerous revisionism, it makes us wonder if the correct term no longer "politically correct" but "political correction"?
h/t TheUberGuy
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Parents do something about it all the time - they move, or swtich to private schools, or home school because they are smart enough not waste resources on winning a battle that would do little for their child's safety going to, attending, or going home from government schools.
It was time for a new Civil War any way.
Anyone can see where this is all leading. Home schooling for any white kid in a minority school. MSM stoking the fires until US becomes Rhodesia.
People who use Apple products are the enemy. When the EMP happens, strike as lightening and show no mercy.
What about the Blue/Grey football game? Change to Good/Bad People game.
I heard that some big pharma companies are removing the cotton from the medicine bottles. They don't want anyone getting offending having to "pick cotton" out of the medicine jar.
Pleaae mark todays date. It signals a terminal top to the Apple Corp.
Agreed. Time to sell Apple, it's rotten to the core.
What do you expect from the dumbing down of history as taught to the masses through public education or the media? This has led to the equivocation that the civil war was all about racism and slavery rather than a very complex set of issues. Abraham Lincoln good, Jefferson Davis bad. Lee bad, Grant good. If you asked the average dolt to name a general involved in the civil war, most of them probably slept through a class and couldn't name one. When you get to the college level, it is even worse since almost all political science and history classes are taught by Marxists. Founding Fathers bad, rich, white, evil as compared to such luminaries as Mao or Ho Chi Minh.
Just remember: confederate flags kill (this bullshit is out of control) but demonstrates how stupid we have become
Remove Lincoln from the $5 bill and tear down the Lincoln monument because it reminds us of the Civil War.
Yea,,, Put William Clinton in the seat with Monica kneeling in front and................................................
This should satisfy the reformers...
I won't buy the progressive bastards crapple ishit anyway.
Al Gore on the Apple board
Welcome to instant mass censorship. Exactly what the TPTB wanted to achieve. Living in a prison of our own making, awesome.
What's next? Apple baning WWII games for showing the Nazi flag?
iDiots.
Not yet as our leaders consider nazis the good guys. Remember we are supporting a bunch of neo-nazi banderist thugs running Ukraine!
Spot on.
We are aiding, abetting and funding Nazi's at this very moment.... Ukraine.
Well that is sure to change everything for the better.
Traditionally, history is written by the victors. Today any rainbow-statist oriented business, with a phone and a desk, can take a stab at it. 'Don't Tread On Me' flags and memorabilia may be their next target:
"...the Gadsden flag is still popularly flown in Charleston, South Carolina, the city where Christopher Gadsden first presented the flag, and where it was commonly used during the revolution, along with the blue and white crescent flag of pre-Civil War South Carolina." (wikipedia - 'Gadsden flag')
I wonder how long America's consumables would last in the event of an agent provocateur induced civil race war? They could always use the cartels that by the FBI's own admission are in nearly every town in America. Anybody who engages in this race war is a fool.
You don't have to engage in it, it will engage you
We are on our way to have President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho elected. Commense the watering of crops with gatoraide.
"Shit... is FUCKED"
i Have a old precensure version Civil war game complete with the proper flags which is now a collectors item. I will be taking offers starting at $1000.Winning bidder will receive a free authentic Confederate minnie ball. Waaahoooo Ebay here we come.
FBI knocking...
"Waaahoooo Ebay here we come."
Sorry to be a spoiler but Ebay has banned all sales of Confederate flags and memorabilia.
Culture and social engineering at it's ...worst ..err... FINEST!
The United States has always had a happy history of getting along. People of all colours and religions and ...the correct political views... i mean... all political views are accepted! The States totally love eachother- there's never been any division!
FORWARD ...PLEB...errr... COMRADES!
This has become all that and more to come. Pure insanity. Imagine this happened over one deranged individual.
First, They Came For The Confederate Battle Flag. Then, They Came
For The American Flag—In Fact, They Already Have...
The Supreme Court decision had CLARENCE THOMAS voting to ban the Confederate flag. Very white of the mother...
When a progressive learns you haven't been reprogrammed yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUXHB5U-Vl4
As you may have been already informed (Read Facebook link), Apple has removed our game from AppStore because of usage of the Confederate Flag. Ultimate General: Gettysburg could be accepted back if the flag is removed from the game's content.
We accept Apple's decision and understand that this is a sensitive issue for the American Nation. We wanted our game to be the most accurate, historical, playable reference of the Battle of Gettysburg. All historical commanders, unit composition and weaponry, key geographical locations to the smallest streams or farms are recreated in our game's battlefield.
We receive a lot of letters of gratitude from American teachers who use our game in history curriculum to let kids experience one of the most important battles in American history from the Commander's perspective.
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.
We can’t change history, but we can change the future.
Let's just purge the Civil War entirely from all the school history books and be done with it.
Don't be surprised when the left begins to purge a lot more than that my friend.
At least Roger Cohen's orders to keep up the anti-Russian agit prop hasn't been sidetracked.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/opinion/roger-cohen-counterrevolutiona...
Good old neocon Cohen.
Its as if he gets all his news from himself.
It may be time to get out of game mode and prepare for the real thing.
Who better than Apple to whip the masses into a frenzy over the Confederate Flag?
Because there is nothing more important going on in the world.
there..is..no..hope
People need to consider this building situation tactically. The biggest problem for the takeover over America is the fact that it is armed to the teeth. If you were a tyrant how would you solve that problem? Door to door confiscations? Hardly, that would be stupid. How about engieering a civil war and then sit back and wait for the consumables (which are already in short supply) to run low and then come in for the "reunification" of America? They want people to engage in a race war, how far they will take it is anyones guess.
The South knew damn well what was going down during the Civil War, lets hope that they can see what's going down this time as well.
One poster mentioned flying the Confederate flag on Independence Day.
Also for consideration removing Old Glory or flying her upside down would also suffice.
You can burn the flags and the books, You can outlaw the speech. But you cannot eliminate an idea.
I took an oath to defend the constitution (not the government) against all enemies foreign and domestic. I have not and will not revoke that oath.
Hear me Washington... Your day is coming. Freedom is an idea government cannot erase.
"...flying the Confederate flag on Independence Day..."
Probably the greatest idea I've ever read on ZH
How many Americans actually believe the Civil War was about slavery?
It wasn't . It was about states rights.,
Just when i was gona kill sum damn yankees!!!
Even a dick like this gets something right for once.
I'm livid right now. I did a lot of work helping with the AI for Ultimate General Gettysburg. Nick Thomadis' game studio is very small and there's nothing offensive about the game at all, save the fact it includes a historically accurate Confederate battle flag. Absolutely absurd. I'm going to wave a Confederate flag around now just because I can. Try and take it from me.
Modify it for the Chinese and Russian markets.
Everything has been full retard for a while but the last few weeks of these knee-jerk reactions and political 'correctness' has been making my hair stand on end for some reason.
Its the quickening. Our owners are aware that the masses are finally starting to waken so they're hurriedly trying to implement their plans before the masses reach critical mass.
F apple & their PC gestapo. Proudly, never owned & never will own their overpriced lofo spying products meant for the tech challenged!
The civil war didn't really happen, it was just on tv.[sarc]
All those graves, just movie set props. It is all just an illusion. [Carlin]
This is a grand example of why no one should go to war or let their children go to war for another's money.
All wars are bankers wars. Does anyone even remember Pat Tillman? That's the beauty of the internet generation, we can forget fallen heroes at the speed of light.
As soon as you bury your children, the world will forget them.
You guys that served [especially VietNam] I love ya, but this flag removal, memory altering shit is exactly what the tribe does.
Wake the fuck up, this isn't a dream, it is a nightmare.
I served in the Vietnam mess and am a born Yankee and believe me,,, this whole thing make me sick.
The Nam vets driving around with Virtnam stickers on their cars are looking for glory where there is none.
USA is doomed as a nation. Manhood will be the thing to be abolished.
"Manhood will be the thing to be abolished."
Already is.
Caitlen Jenner ?
Hey, he CHOSE to mutilate himself. That's what makes him a sick fucker.
If Amazon is really concerned about racism why do they continue to sell Black Panther merchandise, patches, wall art, etc.....? Something stinks
Amazon is owned by the Jew kike roach Jeff Bezos
The irony here is that Apple wants to get rid of a 150+ year old flag because it represents slavery to them...
However, having current-day Chinese slaves build their products is A-ok.
I guess it's like Eddie Izzard said...."Do you have a flag?"
Suicide nets are OK.
Subconciously they are maybe trying to compensate for that. But yeah, it's striking isn't it?
Participants in this year’s civil war reenactments will be arrested!
Gadsden flag is next.
the only way I can express my personal opinion is to say
YOU MOTHER FUCKING KIDDY FUCKING WIMPS AT APPLEI will now sell my apple stock, beat my iphone into a 100 pieces and swear to 'Odin' that I will never touch an apple product again
I hope you cock sucking wimps at apple get cancer and die a painfull death.
Boycott any product that advocates tyrany!. and yes you 'apple elites' can dismiss my rant has the ravingvs of a lunatic, but I would much rather be a lunatic than subscribe to this hypocrisy.
Now where's my fucking blackberry before they jump on the bandwagon ! I dispair !.
Truth be told the flag always bothered me. That and the uniforms, too drab. Maybe they could be tie-dyed or something funky. Fuck historical accuracy.
From a strictly fashion perspective, the SS had the bitchingest uniforms of WW2.
While the confederate flag never meant shit to me, why stop with it. I'm sure to millions of native Americans, first peoples, American Indians the American Flag is far more offensive. "How bout those 'SKINS." Let's ask Hawaiians what they think of their island becoming a "DOLE" plantation.
I've always thought of the confederate flag as a symbol of some pretty rasict shit, but where does it end. Its part of our history, and much of it has been pretty fucked. However legislating ignorance is no way to enlighten people.
Personally I hate everyone, I hold no bias towards any one race or religion just stupid people.
as the western world supported the paris event and held up signs saying i am charlie ! [free speech] i look at the usa and find nobody there. [ok to upset muslims but not african/americans]
The first 100 developers to comply will get a free bottle of blue pills. The rest will be required to consume two bottles of red pills. For the record, the color really isn’t the issue, they’re all Prozac.
Sincerely yours,
The Politboro of Political Correctivityness.
This is what happens when political correctness goes to far.
They better quick pull all the ancient games, since all the ancient societies held slaves. No more Roman games! No more Greek games! No more Egyptian games! No more Mayan games! No more Aztec games! And what about travel apps? Are apps that reference the pyramids going to be removed? What about those for Rome? Rome wasn't built by unionized labor. Is Tim Cook aware of that? Should people who vacation there be shunned? Should they lose their job? Should people who visit Mochu Picchu be investigated for suspicious behavior and questioned about their attitudes towards slavery? Maybe the TSA should consider it?
My IQ in absolute terms has held steady for a long time, but my IQ in relative terms is growing faster than the Fed's balance sheet. Beyond that, I'm at a loss for words.
Just purchased a Confederate Flag,,, just because. Never thought of owning one in my life until now.
I hate slavery, ALL slavery
But I despise tyranny worse,,, whether it be government tyranny, tyranny of the majority or tyranny concocted by media.
Just stop teaching all history. This is as stupid a policy as I can remember. Hopefully, they'll be consistent and remove Ken Burns' Civil WR and Ted Turner's Gettysburg as well.
I'm wondering if there is another planet nearby run by someone not quite so fucking stupid.
something is not adding up!
It looks like they are trying to pull off a false flag and they wanna blame it on white sup. and this is a great excuse they can use.
"it looks like he went cray-cray after he couldn't buy a flag.. back to you Anderson"
Yes, play all the games you want where you blow up, shoot, incinerate, vaporize, dismember, torture, or otherwise anhialate a group that you indiscriminately chose to be your enemy. Just don’t do it waving the Dixie Flag. That would be insensitively racist.
So many GUTLESS corporations these days.
I will never buy an apple product again. I've played many of those games and they are both fun and educational. This is going WAY too far. Almost to the point of absurdity.
The Confederate flag has an image problem around the globe to anybody who recognises it. This is a simple fact. eg: The Swastika and the English St Georges cross flag have negative connotations. Why? Because these flags/symbols were hijacked by the far right/hate groups over a number of decades, that the flag and symbol became guilty of hate merely by association. This same phenomenon has happened to the Confederate flag. Like it or not, the confederate flag is guilty by association of representing hate towards certain groups.
But there is hope. Fortunately, the St Georges cross has been successfully reclaimed from the bigots in the UK, by the general population. It no longer has the ultra negative connotations it once had. The flag is now proudly flown on civic buildings, stuck on cars and designed on clothes worn by all creeds. Kids of all races proudly wear the England football top, where once it was only the preserve of the white "England till I die brigade". The confederate flag needs a similar makeover. Is the confederate flag really as neutral as some of the posters claim? Or is the flag a symbol that represented a group of likeminded thinkers who wanted to fight to keep a way of life, which including subjugating a section of its society? If the latter is true, then it is natural the flag has an image problem and will cause distress and be upsetting to some people.
IMO the Confederate flag is as unsalvageable as the Swastika. Primarily because of what I outlined, plus the fact it is hijacked by hate groups.
"The Confederate flag has an image problem around the globe to anybody who recognises it."
Anybody? Really? Cause last time I checked, the people of the South, and their hundreds of millions if not billions of supporters around the globe, are not nobody.
This flag represents people like me.
Me and my tens of millions of kindred will happily tell you to your face: if you don't like our flag, you can quite simply fuck off and die slowly in a fire.
Poor Apple. It had to find something it could stop selling to show concern. Only thing with a confederate flag they could find. And they'll keep on selling the other war games without an issue.
They only banned the games which were obviously hateful or bigoted. You know, like the ones which suggest or imply the South was in the right, or should have won.
Ironically, all this banning of random things could start another civil war. Just a thought.
"You almost make me forget about tacos".
corporations are free individuals, right?
even Germans do not filter out games or movies because of Nazi emblems in them; even though their law prohibits display of such symbols
Let's pretend WW2 and the holocaust never happened because the Nazi flag upsets me.
LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU LA LA LA
Operation Deception-Perception in the US has arrived big time. We have Killer Algorithms, Algo Duping, Algo Fairies and now Flag Dupers.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2015/06/operation-perception-deception-into.html
So history is being erased right in front of our eyes.
Were there not some novels that talked about this happening? Dystopia, it was called.
So history is being erased right in front of our eyes.
Were there not some novels that talked about this happening? Dystopia, it was called.
Maybe Apple and Walmart executives bought the company that makes the flags, in their own personal portfolios, or in those of their cousins and inlaws.
Then they jump on the PC bandwaggon, thus freely advertising their wares.
Sales skyrocket.
this is a fascinating illustration in real time
of how easy it is to re-write history,
and how quickly it is done.
anyone with their eyes half open should understand
this as a clear example that the truth of everything
we are told or have been taught has been carefully
and systematically expurgated
moving ever closer to being an ideal society
of mushrooms, thriving on the shit we are fed
and kept in the dark
ever realize that the ones banning the Confederate flag
are the first ones on their soapboxes screamig:
**********FREEDOM OF SPEECH*********
I have a thought concerning the freedom that now exists for gay people
Will we now see an advertisement on television with a scantily glad jockey wearing muscle man draped over that car bonnet in lieu of the female !
Now there's equality. The 'Mad men' add guys are already mulling over the idea
worth noting that those clamoring the loudest
for the removal of the Confederate flag
are the quickest and loudest
"Freedom of Speech" hypocrites
to jump on their soapboxes and shout
their disgusting platitudes to defend
Westboro Baptist Church