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« on: June 24, 2015, 09:15:45 PM »

Y'all should have heard about this already and there are multiple articles you can google if you haven't.  Main reason I'm starting this thread is to put up a link to a complaint about WalMart doing so and the absolute gem of a response to the complaint.

https://twitter.com/cynicgrrl/status/613797857502494720/photo/1
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« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2015, 12:20:43 AM »

So the Battle Flag of the Army of NoVA is now considered literally worse than Hitler.
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« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2015, 05:02:08 PM »

FF and 4th July and American flag day.
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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2015, 05:39:15 PM »

So the Battle Flag of the Army of NoVA is now considered literally worse than Hitler.

Ironically German neo-nazis use the Confederate flag as a stand-in for the Third Reich Nazi flag, which is banned in Germany
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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2015, 06:46:30 PM »

Bummer, I wanted to buy some to burn on the 4th.
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« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2015, 07:03:23 PM »

Y'all should have heard about this already and there are multiple articles you can google if you haven't.  Main reason I'm starting this thread is to put up a link to a complaint about WalMart doing so and the absolute gem of a response to the complaint.

https://twitter.com/cynicgrrl/status/613797857502494720/photo/1

That is awesome, particularly the bit about losing his guns because they went gay. Smiley
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« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2015, 07:17:18 PM »

Aren't we overreacting just a bit?
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« Reply #7 on: June 25, 2015, 08:15:56 PM »

Apple has just removed all Civil War strategy games from App Store.

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« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2015, 08:42:32 PM »

Is that real???
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« Reply #9 on: June 25, 2015, 09:19:45 PM »
« Edited: June 25, 2015, 09:23:25 PM by RTX »

Aren't we overreacting just a bit?
Nobody really gave a damn about it forever but now people are falling over themselves to show how against the flag they are and saying pretty much the exact same thing - "it'stimetoputtheflaginamuseumblahblahblah"

This will blow over in a week or two when people get tired of it and find something new to be outraged about.
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« Reply #10 on: June 25, 2015, 09:23:42 PM »


Unfortunately, yes.

There's no reaction quite like an overreaction.
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« Reply #11 on: June 25, 2015, 09:58:53 PM »

Alright, this has officially gone too far for me.
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« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2015, 10:10:09 PM »

This is quickly becoming another Columbine, where every product involving any sort of violence and teenagers was summarily put on hold, to the point where the season finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was put on hold for months.
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« Reply #13 on: June 25, 2015, 10:35:26 PM »
« Edited: June 25, 2015, 10:37:52 PM by ag »


Not that I care about the games, but, yeah, history games are one of those settings where the flag is unobjectionable. It is a historical flag - like, say, the Nazi flag (in symbolism, I find the two very similar). We are not talking of Germany here - it is the US, for godīs sake!
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« Reply #14 on: June 25, 2015, 10:38:28 PM »

Obviously apps with "legitimate" uses of the Confederate flag (like strategy games that don't glorify the Lost Cause) will be restored once this dies down. Apple's making a smart business decision here.
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« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2015, 10:41:51 PM »

Obviously apps with "legitimate" uses of the Confederate flag (like strategy games that don't glorify the Lost Cause) will be restored once this dies down. Apple's making a smart business decision here.

How is this a smart business decision?
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« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2015, 10:41:56 PM »

Obviously apps with "legitimate" uses of the Confederate flag (like strategy games that don't glorify the Lost Cause) will be restored once this dies down. Apple's making a smart business decision here.

Well, it is not ok that they are being taken down now. Overkill is bad. And Apple is a big enough platform that making decisions of this sort is very harmful.
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« Reply #17 on: June 25, 2015, 10:44:57 PM »


Thats insane. Roll Eyes
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« Reply #18 on: June 25, 2015, 10:45:49 PM »

What games are we talking about here? I have never heard of apple having such?
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« Reply #19 on: June 25, 2015, 10:56:12 PM »
« Edited: June 25, 2015, 10:58:26 PM by shua »

What games are we talking about here? I have never heard of apple having such?

The article mentions several. 
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Note these were not Games from Apple, they just were sold through the App store so they could be used on Apple products.
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« Reply #20 on: June 25, 2015, 10:56:23 PM »

Obviously apps with "legitimate" uses of the Confederate flag (like strategy games that don't glorify the Lost Cause) will be restored once this dies down. Apple's making a smart business decision here.

How is this a smart business decision?

Because now they won't get caught up in the controversy for having "Confederate flag apps"

Virtually no one is ever going to notice the Civil War apps were gone from the store, especially once they start reviewing and restoring the apps that aren't neo-Confederate.
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« Reply #21 on: June 26, 2015, 12:53:56 PM »

Obviously apps with "legitimate" uses of the Confederate flag (like strategy games that don't glorify the Lost Cause) will be restored once this dies down. Apple's making a smart business decision here.

How is this a smart business decision?

Because now they won't get caught up in the controversy for having "Confederate flag apps"

Virtually no one is ever going to notice the Civil War apps were gone from the store, especially once they start reviewing and restoring the apps that aren't neo-Confederate.

Instead they'll get caught up in the controversy of overreacting and censoring content for no good reason.  I didn't even know there were Civil War apps until Apple decided to censor them.
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« Reply #22 on: June 26, 2015, 01:55:56 PM »

Obviously apps with "legitimate" uses of the Confederate flag (like strategy games that don't glorify the Lost Cause) will be restored once this dies down. Apple's making a smart business decision here.

How is this a smart business decision?

Because now they won't get caught up in the controversy for having "Confederate flag apps"

Virtually no one is ever going to notice the Civil War apps were gone from the store, especially once they start reviewing and restoring the apps that aren't neo-Confederate.

Instead they'll get caught up in the controversy of overreacting and censoring content for no good reason.  I didn't even know there were Civil War apps until Apple decided to censor them.

Guess it was good business for everyone then. Those apps will sell a lot when they're reinstated, and Apple gets their cut too.
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« Reply #23 on: June 26, 2015, 03:18:15 PM »

From a pure economic perspective a company LOADED with confederate flags for sale should be making hay....and plenty of it.  The rubes are going to fear a ban a buy everyone up.  Chaaaching $$$$
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« Reply #24 on: June 26, 2015, 04:09:04 PM »


wtf?
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