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According to an Gamasutra article Apple bans all games that show an American Confederate flag.

There's been renewed scrutiny about the use of the Confederate flag, a symbol hoisted by Southern slave-holding states during America's Civil War, following the vicious murders last week of nine black churchgoers in South Carolina by a white man. Major retailers such as Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and others have ceased sales of the flag in recent days.

Yeah, that's including all civil war games, too:

A developer with HexWar Games, the studio behind Civil War: 1863, said he received a note from Apple stating that game was removed "because it includes images of the Confederate flag used in offensive and mean-spirited ways."
 
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Same on Google Playstore. And now please remove all other shovelware wargames as well.
 

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Great. Now only Steam has to follow this retarded move.
 

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More or less. Germany is retarded as well in this and I suspect they got the inspiration from here.
 

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It's hard to believe some people can be that retarded. I guess Hearts of Iron is next because of the swastika.
 

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Apple being retarded

Whoa, stop the presses, amirite?

Seriously though, this is some of the dumbest shit I've read all day. Minitrue is working overtime lately.
 

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It's hard to believe some people can be that retarded. I guess Hearts of Iron is next because of the swastika.
Hearts of Iron has never had any swastikas, it uses a fantasy or anachronistic flag for Nazi Germany.
90% of players mod the correct flag in, though :smug:
 

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It's hard to believe some people can be that retarded. I guess Hearts of Iron is next because of the swastika.
Hearts of Iron has never had any swastikas, it uses a fantasy or anachronistic flag for Nazi Germany.
90% of players mod the correct flag in, though :smug:

Had no idea about that. What about the USSR flag? Did they remove that,too?
 

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It's hard to believe some people can be that retarded. I guess Hearts of Iron is next because of the swastika.
Hearts of Iron has never had any swastikas, it uses a fantasy or anachronistic flag for Nazi Germany.
90% of players mod the correct flag in, though :smug:

Had no idea about that. What about the USSR flag? Did they remove that,too?
Of course not. Genocide against your own race is ok.
 

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Meanwhile on Steam:

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It will end up with all flags being banned, since almost all countries have some bad past attached to their flag.
 

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in offensive and mean-spirited ways.

:what:

They actually said that? Apple? The global corporation? They said a strategy game that tries to realistically display the US Civil War is using a flag in a freaking mean-spirited way??
Shiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet....
 

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It would be more surprising if megacorps and the American people in general didn't overreact.
 

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Huh. Is this 'debate' over the flag getting particularly divisive or something? I don't really follow Americans news all that much, but this is pretty ridiculous.
 

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Divisive? Not really. Few people, politicians in particular, are coming out to defend removal of the flag. Just typical overreaction. I can understand removing it from the state capitol. Removing it from a game about the civil war makes no sense.
 

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Slave labor using Mega corp banning products over obscure symbols of long past and gone slavery. :kwanzania: They should ban Stars and Stripes a flag of Indian genocide. land thief, and countless wars of aggressions instead as Komrade Farakhan said. :troll:
 

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