Apple Removes All American Civil War Games From the App Store Because of the Confederate Flag

Found on Touch Arcade on Thursday, 25 June 2015
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Many large US companies, like Walmart and Amazon, have already banned the sale of any Confederate flag merchandise as a reaction to the recent events. Now, it appears that Apple has decided to join them by pulling many Civil War wargames from the App Store.

It's looking like Apple has pulled everything from the App Store that features a Confederate flag, regardless of context. The reasoning Apple is sending developers is "...because it includes images of the confederate flag used in offensive and mean-spirited ways."

Sources close to the company say that it's working with the developers affected by the flag ban to get the issue resolved and get the games back on the App Store. However, the developers will have to either remove or replace the Confederate flag. If this is indeed what Apple is demanding from the developers, it raises all kind of questions about censorship and historical memory as it literally risks rewriting history.

Knee-jerk reactions are getting worse. You just don't censor history; the winners have done so already and there is no excuse for making it worse. Seems there is a limit for "freedom of speech" in the country that was built with this same freedom as a basis. Witness the Ministries of Truth at work.