The renewed debate over the Confederate battle flag is bleeding further into the digital realm this morning. As Touch Arcade reports, Apple seems to be removing many games that feature the flag's image from the iOS App Store, including a number of war simulations that use the flag primarily to mark historical context.
Touch Arcade reports that affected developers are being told that their apps have been removed "...because [they] include images of the confederate flag used in offensive and mean-spirited ways." But some game developers take issue with that characterization. "We're in no way sympathetic to the use of the flag in an offensive way, we used it purely because historically that was the flag that was used at the time," a developer from strategy game maker HexWar told Touch Arcade.
Game Labs' Maxim Zasov told Touch Arcade that he accepts Apple's decision to remove the game Ultimate General: Gettysburg from the App Store, adding that he understands "this is a sensitive issue for the American Nation." One anonymous developer on reddit, who says 14 of his company's games were removed from the App Store, had some much stronger words for Apple's decision. "It reminds me of the ww2 [sic] invasion on Poland when the books were burned."
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