[Peace-discuss] Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes

[Rohn Koester]

Hey Peace. The content police at Apple decide that merely knowing that
drone strikes occur is objectionable and crude.

It seemed like a simple enough idea for an iPhone app: Send users a pop-up
notice whenever a flying robots kills someone in one of America’s many
undeclared wars. But Apple keeps blocking the Drones+ program from its App
Store — and therefore, from iPhones everywhere. The Cupertino company says
the content is “objectionable and crude,” according to Apple’s latest
rejection letter.

It’s the third time in a month that Apple has turned Drones+ away, says
Josh Begley, the program’s New York-based developer. The company’s reasons
for keeping the program out of the App Store keep shifting. First, Apple
called the bare-bones application that aggregates news of U.S. drone
strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia “not useful.” Then there was an
issue with hiding a corporate logo. And now, there’s this crude content
problem.

Begley is confused. Drones+ doesn’t present grisly images of corpses left
in the aftermath of the strikes. It just tells users when a strike has
occurred, going off a publicly available database of strikes compiled by
the U.K.’s Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which compiles media
accounts of the strikes.


http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/drone-app/

Rohn
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