Apple bans COVID-19 games and restricts virus-related apps to authoritative souces
Apple has proclaimed it won’t let COVID-19-related games into its app store, because it’s the responsible thing to do. Cupertino’s new guidance issued to developers late last week said “Communities around the world are depending on apps to be credible news sources — helping users understand the latest health innovations, find …
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Monday 16th March 2020 08:06 GMT Pascal Monett
Re: Is this really any different to what Facebook etc are doing?
Yes, it is. Fake News should always be suppressed - and yes, that means that Fox News should be shut down. But the subject is games. Who is Apple to decide what kind of game is allowable when they allow fart apps by the dozens ?
If you want to impose certain standards, you can't cherry pick.
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Monday 16th March 2020 09:57 GMT Sgt_Oddball
Re: Is this really any different to what Facebook etc are doing?
Yes there is, a fart machine audible over the English channel (from Dover pointed at the French, natch).
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Monday 16th March 2020 19:50 GMT Boris the Cockroach
Re: Is this really any different to what Facebook etc are doing?
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Fake News should always be suppressed
I got an interesting message on facebork today saying a post I made about covid-19 breeding in toilet paper was fake.
I was like WTF man.. I got the link from known spoof news site.....
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Monday 16th March 2020 09:35 GMT Julz
Obvious
Game to play when your family is in lock down:
With the advantage you don't have to use your virus laden phone.