Apple has reportedly removed from the App Store a number of games said to glorify the extrajudicial killings of suspected drug dealers and users in the Philippines. A number of the games feature Philippine National Police director general Ronald dela Rosa and the country’s president, Rodrigo Duterte, shooting people.
Apple’s action follows an open letter to Tim Cook signed by a strangely-named organization said to represent victims of illegal drugs …
The Asian Network of People Who Use Drugs (ANPUD) said that the call to remove the games had been backed by more than 100 organizations who felt that they were normalizing murder.
It said that more than 13,000 people had been killed by the police and public without any judicial process.
ANPUD said that while Apple did not publicly respond to the letter, most of the games in question appear to have been removed.
President Duterte has been accused of not only instigating a ‘shoot to kill’ policy in the police, but also providing a ‘licence to kill’ to private citizens, who are not prosecuted for killing those suspected to be involved in the drugs trade.
Via Patently Apple
