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

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Wow. Another good reason not to deal with Apple. And, of course, tell them so.


On Aug 30, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Rohn Koester <rohnkoester at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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