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Pepe Is Banned From the Apple App Store (vice.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The rarest pepe is one found on the iOS App Store, and now we know why: Apple has categorized the meme frog as "objectionable content" and has rejected an app called Pepe Scream, Motherboard confirmed. "Your app contains images and references of Pepe the Frog, which are considered objectionable content," an Apple App Review Board employee named Nicole wrote in a rejection notice to Spirit Realm Games, the developer of Pepe Scream. "It would be appropriate to remove the references and revise the images in your app." MrSnrhms, a developer for Spirit Realm Games, gave Motherboard temporary access to the team's iOS developer account, which showed that Apple did indeed reject the app because it contains Pepe, a cartoon frog that has been increasingly associated with the alt-right. Also read: Pepe the Frog Is Dead.
One way to think of this would be a new form of Denial of Service attack. Just take any icon you want, and create a fake hate group that idolizes it, and start reporting that icon to various organizations to have all content with that icon removed.
Except Pepe the Frog wasn't adopted by racist sacks of shit.
4Chan tricked the media into thinking that was the case. Just like they tricked them into thinking the "OK" hand gesture was a symbol for white power.
Every instance on social media you see of Pepe the Frog or the "OK" hand gesture being used for such purposes is a farce. The media bought it whole hog, with zero investigation, zero confirmation, and zero thinking.
How could he even go to the Apple App Store?
Yep, they also convinced a few members of the media that creatine fueled elliot rogers' murder spree.. basically 4chan is a bit like the onion, entertaining but don't even for a second take it seriously.
If you want to see change, do this to Mickey Mouse ASAP.
I have seen that happen with my country's flag.
No, really. I have literally seen people argue NOT to use the flag in a logo because it's heavily used by a political party considered far right/nationalist. So ... the most obvious symbol of a country should not be used in the logo for that country's branch of a global group. Because OMG RAYCYSTS!
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"But Apple is a private company and can cens^H^H^H^H do what they want herp derp."
Of course they can. And we can mock them at every opportunity for doing so.
"But Apple is a private company and can cens^H^H^H^H do what they want herp derp."
It's all well and good until something you think isn't hate speech becomes Apple hate speech.
Or the altcoin you like to use suddenly becomes "against the terms of service". Then so much for your phone investment.
Really, Apple is so filthy rich and they keep getting richer by selling average people a bland comfort bubble, that they should just offer to buy back phones from people who complain about the apps they pull. It would be a trivial slice of their userbase and they could resell the phones as refurbs anyway.
I do think they are doing security right, but I can't even consider using an Apple phone, because I can't have one that may have features I depend on be taken away retroactively. So far, Android is a safe choice for predictability, even if the security is kind of iffy for the non-diligent user.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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Censorship is unacceptable.
You are a sign of racism. I have taken your name and used it to post racist comments all over the Internet. Please delete your Slashdot account immediately as it is a sign of alt-right hate.
The word "Swastika" is a Sanskrit word. Never in the short history of the Nazi regime did any German refer to it with the word "Swastika", but the word "Hakenkreuz".
What i find sad is that uneducated idiots like you refer to it as a Swastika thus vivifying a word unrelated to the Nazis which is actually important to half the world population located in Asia from religious, cultural, and historical standpoints.
Those standpoints are 2000 years old, far more than the short-lived 20 year old Nazi Regime.
In this case, it is not that words evolved, but that brains of people like yourself devolved and the vocabulary with them.
This requires correction. Not only to bring justice to the Asian people, but also to resolve the injustice perpetrated by misinformation and lack of education of people like yourself giving a cultural victory to the Nazis over a symbold they don't deserve, all because people like you are so small-minded that they need a brand recognition for an ideology even if it means offending and desecrating 2000 years of history of a continent which makes half the planet's population.
The real injustice is calling is a "Swastika", and deeming it a "hate symbol", because of shortsightedness and narrow-mindedness.
This frog meme thing being politicized and banned is a far more idiotic representation of idiocracy than what the above stated represents.
It is also pathetic, childish, and narrow-minded.
Make Pepe gay. Apple will be struggling internally and won't be able to decide if it should be banned or accepted.
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Alt-right is not racist, get a clue.
The KKK probably mostly votes Republican, but most Republicans are not members of the KKK. Same with the alt-right.
The alt-right, in simplest terms, says: multiculturalism doesn't actually work. Mixing cultures leads to conflict. Furthermore they believe specifically that Western culture is threatened by multiculturalism, because too many migrants from non-western cultures are being accepted, and failing to integrate.
There's nothing particularly racist about that. There may well be something racist in the progressive position that everyone except westerners should strive to preserve their culture.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
Damn straight - this country was founded on the principle that anything I associate with anything I disagree with should be removed not just from my sight, but from everybody else's sight, too!
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Actually the latest white power symbol is a white image of an apple with a bite taken out of it, which symbolizes the superior white race being chosen by God to cleanse the earth after Adam and Eve took a bite of the poisoned apple in the garden of Eden.
Proud neuron in the Slashdot hivemind since 2002.
Actually, if you google "mickey mouse nazi" or similar, you pretty much see... well, more or less what you'd expect to see: tons of mickey mouse in SS uniforms and the like. In fact, if you compare "mickey mouse nazi" to "pepe nazi", you get almost the same amount of hits (at least, I do, YMMV). Because that's how the Internet works. However, it's not politically convenient for anyone to try associating Mickey Mouse with fascism, so no one cares.
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
Is this a joke I just didn't get?
Kek is just "lol" from the orcs in World of Warcraft. It's just a dumb 4chan joke. Doing something for top kek isn't some internal neo-nazi language. It's the new kid on the block way of saying you are doing something "for the lulz", or "just for laughs" or "insert your newfangled new kid slang here".
The fact that this stuff is taken so seriously is almost frightening in and of itself. When did our culture get so engrossed in this dumb garbage?
I don't remember apple banning the cockmongler and reporting on the mean antics of something awful goons. The world has gone mad.
Kids always try to find something that will bother the previous generation. It looks like this hyper-offensive bullshit is jut the new way to laugh at your parents. Do what adults are supposed to do. Ignore it.
It has been co-oped to be the symbol for Kek, a neo-fash (New Fascists) group that is associated with the so-called "Men's Rights Movement" and "The Red Pill".
100% false. You just made that up. Complete BS.
Kekistan is a satire of identity politics. It mocks the white nationalists as much as anyone else. Kekistan was created (or at least popularized) by YouTuber Sargon of Akkad, whose politicla views are well know and not alt-right. (He has a track record of sending known alt-right people who follow him interracial porn until they unfollow).
Pepe is just a meme. There are Million s of Pepe images, with only about a half dozen base images that could be considered racist, such as Hitler Pepe. It was the most popular meme image of 2015 (according to Tumblr) so of course there a Hitler Pepe - there's an everything Pepe.
But now Pepe is a counter-culture Icon, ever since it was attacked by the Hillary campaign.
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