Apple cares, you guys:
My thoughts are with the victim's families in SC.Let us honor their lives by eradicating racism & removing the symbols & words that feed it.
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) June 21, 2015
And, to that end:
Apple is yanking Civil War games from the App Store… because they use the Confederate flag: http://t.co/t8WFRIwGek pic.twitter.com/97ZifJLieF
— Kotaku (@Kotaku) June 25, 2015
More from Kotaku:
Today, Apple decided to start yanking games that use the Confederate flag in any way (via TouchArcade). For example, you can now no longer buy the strategy iOS games Civil War: 1862, Civil War: 1863, Civil War: 1864, and Civil War: Gettysburg, which, as you might guess, use the Confederate flag because they’re video games about the Civil War.
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“It seems disappointing that they would remove it as they weren’t being used in an offensive way, being that they were historical war games and hence it was the flag used at the time,” [Civil War game director Andrew] Mulholland said in an e-mail. “At the moment we’re reworking the games to replace the flags that are deemed offensive. We’re going to use the Confederate flag from 1861 and 1862 as the one that’s considered offensive wasn’t introduced until late 1862.”
The note Apple sent, according to Mulholland: “We are writing to notify you that your app has been removed from the App Store because it includes images of the Confederate flag used in offensive and mean-spirited ways.”
iBurnBooks https://t.co/HO2ct2rk6z
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) June 25, 2015
In a nutshell, yeah. Pretty much.
https://twitter.com/CaseyMattoxADF/status/614100275780034560
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/614101807808294913
@BecketAdams @AllieNicoleAW47 @Kotaku How bizarre! I was always told that you're supposed to learn from history, not erase it.
— Peter Johnstone (@PeterJ36) June 25, 2015
@Kotaku So history isn't history anymore? #facepalm
— Ricky Clarke III (@RickyClarkeIII) June 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/samuelbroom/status/614091102744788992
@Kotaku let's ban anything that resembles realism or history. The people will be safer ☺️☺️☺️
— Cameron Heathcote (@CameronRNR) June 25, 2015
@Kotaku This PC stuff is getting out of hand. It's history. Should we remove it from text books as well?
— Mike Titus (@TitusSystems) June 25, 2015
@Kotaku this is ridiculous. That is history, so next are we gonna say the Civil War never happened?
— Parker (@pacotaco_23) June 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/xIsolophobiax/status/614103574503641089
@Kotaku ok now this is really getting out of hand don't delete history you improve on it #bs #stupid
— #ReleaseTheSnyderCut (@evilusmcgk54) June 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/moderncomments/status/614101696650739713
https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/614101477544599552
Just wait; they’ll get to those eventually.
https://twitter.com/jrsalzman/status/614100743117754368
I still see plenty of Nazi games, including ones with swastikas in the icon. https://t.co/IjioFX8SsB
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) June 25, 2015
Give them time. Erasing history can’t happen overnight.
The #ConfederateFlag hysteria has officially jumped the shark… @AppStore, you're idiots https://t.co/sjP4CXeJuL
— (((Aaron “Worthing” Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) June 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/hardt0fin/status/614089312989282305
https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/614109649353183232
@Kotaku "Lets pull civil war games from the App Store for having the confederate flag even though its appropriate in context!" Really Apple?
— Husker (@HUSK3RGAM3R) June 25, 2015
@Kotaku One again, Tim Cook shows the whole world he is a full-blown, brown-shirt fascist. Unreal.
— Greymarch (@Greymarch) June 25, 2015
@back_ttys "No, you can't play a Civil War game on machines built by sweatshops in countries under Communist rule! That would be cruel!!"
— Shane Styles (@shaner5000) June 25, 2015
— Moronic And Godawful Americans (@TheMadJack) June 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/iPlayPretend/status/614090824243146752
@Kotaku good lord. This is humiliating. Bad things happen and if you don't learn from it and just banish it they happen again.
— The Yeti Shepherd (@yetishepherd) June 25, 2015
@Kotaku @ProudoftheUSA OMG we have gone insane
— Gabe, Bella, and their humom Susan (@SWestler) June 25, 2015
“@Kotaku: Apple is pulling Civil War games from the App Store because they use the Confederate flag" I hate racism 2, but come on. History.
— Squirly (@SquirlMastr) June 25, 2015
Ok this is getting silly now; I don't even play these games but I have no other word to describe it #Silly https://t.co/F7Jd1VoV7K
— Henry Knox (@KNOXbroadcast) June 25, 2015
@Kotaku this is fucking outta hand now
— Knifey Shivdark (@xrabz) June 25, 2015
@Kotaku @AppStore this is getting ridiculous
— Angie (@KidWhimsical) June 25, 2015
Smacks face with hand…despairs to no one. https://t.co/0haQcgr9ep
— 6EuropeanPups (@PleasantPups) June 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/614100072838643712
https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/614099839006150657
.@Kotaku You have got to be kidding?!!
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) June 25, 2015
@Kotaku WTF?
— HugWolf (@rivasmiguel22) June 25, 2015
@kotaku Um….guys, if this is serious…
— Charles #GetCovered-ba (@charles_gaba) June 25, 2015
Game developers who did absolutely nothing wrong will suffer financially for social justice. https://t.co/FsHRjC1jpH
— BT (@back_ttys) June 25, 2015
What a time to be alive.
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