A new game called “Hide it Hillary” was originally denied access
to Apple’s App Store because company officials said it “includes content that
could be considered defamatory or mean-spirited.” Apple has allowed the obviously non-defamatory,
anything-but-mean-spirited games called “Punch Trump,” “Slap Donald Trump,” and
“Smack a Trump” access to the App Store marketplace.
Heat
Street- a conservative website- recently reported that “Hide it Hillary” does
not condone violence or even feature the former secretary of state’s image.
Players simply attempt to put documents into a “laptop, server, shredder, or
closet,” according to the Washington Times. “Hide it Hillary” is now available on Google Play for Android devices.
Independent
game/app developers said getting approved with Google took less than one hour,
while Apple’s denial came after an eight-hour wait. (The app was available for
99 cents at the iTunes store one day after the Heat Street report and has
received many five-star reviews).
“I absolutely believe there’s a double standard with Apple in
the sense that they have defamatory and mean-spirited Trump games available for
download but none for Hillary,”
developers Ansem Omega Solutions told the site. “I can’t imagine we are the
first developers to experience this type of bias. In fact, one of the main
reasons we chose to develop a Hillary app is because there were no Hillary apps whatsoever in the store 6-months
ago when we began developing.”
The Clintons have hidden- or attempted to- an almost
inconceivable amount of information potentially damaging to them in the last 25
years or so, while playing fast and loose with information potentially damaging
to their country. Yet a game (relatively
gently) poking fun of them for it is banned by Apple?
The left is
always bleating on (and on and on and on…) about tolerance and inclusion, and
decries physical violence above all things, but “Punch/Slap/Smack Trump” games
are perfectly okay?
What are
they hiding? It certainly isn’t their hypocrisy.
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