[Swordmaker]

Apple is restoring the pulled Civil War games to the App store so long as they don't show the Confederate Naval Battle Flag in the App iCon or in demo screen shots. CIO article on the subject reports on the issue. — PING!

One of the
"offending"
App icons. . .
REALLY
Apple?
Ping!

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[DemforBush]

“Andrew Mulholland of HexWar says “basically we need to remove prominent flags from the screenshots” and “don’t have them in the app icon.” The Confederate flag is okay within games, but it appears that it just needs to not be prominent at all in the forward-facing parts of the App Store.”

Dear Mr. Mulholland,

I regret to inform you that as of 6/27/15, your Man Card has been revoked.

(Removing a Confederate flag from a video game about the Civil War? Can it get any stupider?)

[matthew fuller]

For anyone interested- this website offers Confederate Battle Flag merchandise, looks very reasonable. It’s Ben “Cooter” Jones site (of Dukes of Hazzard”). I have no association with the site, and have never used it.

http://www.cootersplace.com/general-store/category/confederate-merch/

[dennisw]

 

Yee hawwww!!!!  Drop dead Tim Kook and the rest of you gay commie rainbow bassturds!

[wardaddy]

High five my man

You know Cupertino

I drive by the area maybe annually on west coast biz

Tell me what they are li

[RandallFlagg]

I know I'm late to this party because I've been working a LOT of overtime.
But I had to put up my 2 cents:

I was thinking about printing this into a bumper sticker.

[winner3000]

The multi-colored “Gay Pride” flag represents to me anti-Christian bigotry, $135K fine and destruction of a Christian bakery’s business, and all kind of “FU” lascivious gestures toward St. Patrick Cathedral during gay pride parades.

Since it offends so many of us, and is a symbol of bigotry, shouldn’t that flag be removed too? The double-standard is sickening.

I don’t care either way about the confederate flag. It does mean a lot to many people in this nation though. Given that it’s such a hurtful symbol to black people, I agree that it shouldn’t fly at government offices. However, when private companies start censoring it, it says more about those companies than it does about the flag.

Apple has shown its “values”, but also its heavy-handed censorship to the extent they can get away with it. The last thing I want to do is increasing its power by purchasing its products. I wouldn’t be surprised if people in the South start making judgments at people who use Apple products, and such products to slow down in sales.