Dog-Fighting Game Pulled from Android Market
A game where players farm dogs to fight other dogs in illicit dog-fighting rings has been given the boot from Android Market later people (appropriately) complained.
When it comes to the matter of dog-fighting (and not the unagitated kind with fighter planes over WW2-era Britain) I find myself solidly in the same inner circle arsenic MovieBob: It's a heinous act and those who engage in it should be punished with the plangent violence of the law.
Naturally, there are always going to be many unmoral jerks who count at the pattern of forcing dogs to savagely dispatch each other and say, "Hey, that would make a cool game." Such was the case with Dog Wars, a mobile pun on Android where players lifted their dogs to fight other dogs. Apparently, it was pretty much just a poor Mafia Wars clone, so the developers can't even say it was an original idea.
There May placid be a trifle hope left in human race yet: Said game has been pulled from the Humanoid Mart after gamers, the Bailiwick Society, actress Alicia Silverstone, and NFL player Michael Vick all called for its removal. Vick, As you may know, went to imprison over real-life dogfighting, which makes his actions either ironic, hypocritical, or all the more genuine depending on how you look at information technology.
"I've come to pick up the hard way that dogfighting is a nonextant-end street," aforementioned Vick. "Now, I am along the right side of this issue, and I conceive it's important to send the intelligent message to kids, and not glorify this form of animal cruelty, straight in an Android app."
According to All Things Appendage, the creators of Blackguard Wars same that the same free speech that enabled others to criticise the game also protected the gamey's being. Of course, patc free speech is a legal right in the USA meaning that the government couldn't do anything about the app, Google is a private entity that has the right to control its personal services withal it curst pleases, so crying "aweigh speech" here is about As decriminalize a defensive measure as tissue is authorised body armor.
The most popular mobile bet on may regard flinging birds at castles, but until Angry Birds becomes a real-life problem I don't mean we sustain to worry some that.
(Via Destructoid)
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