October 10, 2019 05:10 pm
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Google pulls Hong Kong protest game for violating rules against capitalizing on sensitive events
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Google has removed a pro-Hong Kong protestor game called The Revolution of Our Times from the Play Store, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. It marks the latest Hong Kong-related app to be pulled after Apple removed a crowdsourced mapping app used by protestors and Quartz’s news app.
While the game has been removed, a cached version of the Play Store page is still available on Google search (at least for now). As an actual game, there doesn’t seem to be too much here beyond a basic text-based Choose Your Own Adventure-style narrative that tells the story of a protestor.
In a statement released to The Wall Street Journal, a Google spokesman explained that the app was removed due to a Play Store policy that...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/10/20908034/google-hong-kong-protest-game-play-store-removed-rules
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