Content Moderation Case Study: Apple Removes Games Containing Confederate Flags (June 2015)

Content Moderation Case Study: Apple Removes Games Containing Confederate Flags (June 2015)

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201016/14285345521/content-moderation-case-study-apple-removes-games-containing-confederate-flags-june-2015.shtml

Summary: On June 17, 2015, South Carolina native Dylann Roof entered a church in Charleston, South Carolina and killed nine Black attendees. Roof was an avowed white supremacist as his consequent convictions on hate crime charges attest. Roof also published a racist manifesto to his website prior to the attack, along with photos of white supremacy emblems and the Confederate flag.

Shortly after this tragic act of racially-motivated violence, app developers noticed their apps had been removed by Apple. One of the first to notice was Hexwar Games, which noticed its Civil War strategy game was no longer available in the App Store.