Ndemic Creations, maker of the pandemic simulation game Plague Inc., says the game has been pulled from Apple’s App Store in China because Chinese authorities say it “includes content that is illegal in China as determined by the Cyberspace Administration of China.”
The popular game — which asks players to shepherd a virus’ deadly spread around the world — has been available on the Chinese App Store for years without issue. Ndemic says it’s “not clear to us if this removal is linked to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that China is facing,” but it certainly seems like the most likely proximate cause…
World events aside, Plague Inc. also received an early December “Fake News” update that added “a radically different scenario which lets you create your very own Fake News story and deceive the world with it,” according to the game’s public patch notes. Industry analyst Daniel Ahmad notes on Twitter that China has in the past restricted games that “harm the public ethics, disrupt social order, or undermine social stability,” including titles that contain “false information.”
MacDailyNews Take: It’s important to ban games because they so often affect actual reality. Obviously Apple’s move to pull the game has resulted in China getting the coronavirus under control, so it was worth the effort.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “TJ” for the heads up.]
I am all for a law in the US banning media that will “harm the public ethics, disrupt social order, or undermine social stability,” the Hollywood filth factory would collapse overnight.
An I will defend your right to express your fascist authoritarian opinions, but not to impose them.
Nick shows regularly how little the modern right wing regards libertarian principles. The rightie snowflakes simply want to dominate the levers of power, law & order. They only pretend to be libertarian when it comes time to pay for anything. They pretend that playing political pissing matches makes their nation great, again.
That’s the spirit. When is your first book burning. Maybe we can burn some witches while we are at it. SMH
I think we’ll all soon be spreading CoronaVirus antidote on toast, less painful than a vaccine, and no meetings with Steve Jobs from 1984 required, which is a relief.
Fine, so where can I get it?
I’m not sure how MDN can say, “Apple’s move to pull the game.” Apple did not ban anything. The Chinese government did. Apple chose to obey Chinese law while doing business in China. It has ignored the ban elsewhere. If it had not obeyed Chinese law, it would be subject to Chinese criminal penalties.
It is really easy for staunch anti-communists in America to say that Apple should volunteer its employees in China for unemployment, internal exile, prison, or worse. Said Americans have nothing to lose if Apple’s employees, contractors, developer community, and users suffer the consequences from having the Chinese App Store shut down.
If there were other iOS app stores Apple could not be blamed at all. But they are the IT department and of course are required to comply.
The Romulan Science Ministry has declared that there is a very low probability that their primary star will ever go Super-Nova.
By April.
I wonder if that’s the right thing
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Apple is a big company, so they also have a lot of scandals, so be selective about information to avoid receiving false information.
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