Apple Removes Game Critical Of iPhone Production Process From App Store

[PeeKnuckle]

hone Story, an iOS game designed to highlight workers rights issues in the supply chain and production of Apple's iPhone, has been removed from the App Store due to a violation of Apple's review guidelines.

The game, from Every Day The Same Dream team MolleIndustria, consists of a series of four mini-games "that make the player symbolically complicit in coltan extraction in Congo, outsourced labor in China, e-waste in Pakistan and gadget consumerism in the West," according to the official web site.

But shortly after the game was announced and made available for purchase on the App Store earlier this morning, MolleIndustria tweeted that it had been removed for violating four separate app store review guidelines (as noticed by sister site IndieGames.com).

The cited guidelines prohibit apps that "depict violence or child abuse," "present objectionable or crude content," "contain false, fraudulent of misleading representations" or fail to "comply with all legal requirements."

Be sure to read the rest at the link below

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/37199/Apple_Removes_Game_Critical_Of_iPhone_Production_Process_From_App_Store.php

Source [Gamasutra]

[Dateranoth]

Lame, but not the least bit surprising. When in total control of media a power tends to do such things.

[Sholtz]

thats some major shiz right there