Apple Bans Immigrant-Smuggling Game (Video)
Categories: Immigration, Tech
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| There is a big difference between smuggling and snuggling illegal immigrants |
Low and behold, there's at least one.
Apple told reporters today that it's rejected the offensive iPhone immigrant-smuggling game called Smuggle Truck, where players navigate a truck filled with immigrants across a desert. The point is to get the immigrants across without losing any on the bumpy ride. At the end of the game, whoever has the most immigrants on th bed of their truck wins.
Naturally, this has riled the immigrant-rights community, which called the game completely "disgraceful."
And because of this, Apple refused to even allow the game to make it into the store. To get around Apple's censors, the game developer, Alex Schwartz of Owlchemy Labs, reportedly swapped the immigrants out for soft, fuzzy critters, and changed the name of the app to Snuggle Truck.
"Snuggle Truck will feature a group of cuddly creatures escaping the wilderness for the comfort of the zoo, where they are provided plenty of food, shelter, and state of the art health care," the developers said.
Check out the game.
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