> While newspapers may report on drone strikes, that's not their primary function. The primary function of this app is obviously to make a bold statement about the atrocities of war.
The current primary function of most major newspapers however, seems to be to not make any statement either way, bold or not, and to ignore what's happening. People are being killed with the blood on the hands of the US, but because your soldiers are not directly involved, it's not being reported on, as if it's a minor thing.
It's not newspapers, it's information channels that tow the party line.
> Apple doesn't want to publish an app that is designed to provoke the audience.
> Letting everyone publish would drown out many good apps in favor of shit.
Everybody thinks their own shit don't smell. Personally I think a large chunk of the bland useless turds found on the Apple Appstore is a lot of shit[1], and a DroneTracker app is in fact pretty damn cool, original and fresh.
[1] I wouldn't normally do this on HN but since you've started it, I can enjoy slinging projectile poop as much as the next monkey.
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> While newspapers may report on drone strikes, that's not their primary function. The primary function of this app is obviously to make a bold statement about the atrocities of war.
The current primary function of most major newspapers however, seems to be to not make any statement either way, bold or not, and to ignore what's happening. People are being killed with the blood on the hands of the US, but because your soldiers are not directly involved, it's not being reported on, as if it's a minor thing.
It's not newspapers, it's information channels that tow the party line.
> Apple doesn't want to publish an app that is designed to provoke the audience.
Unless it's political cartoons. But only if you win a Pulitzer first and Steve jumps in ( http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/04/apple-approves-pulitzer-win... ).
> Letting everyone publish would drown out many good apps in favor of shit.
Everybody thinks their own shit don't smell. Personally I think a large chunk of the bland useless turds found on the Apple Appstore is a lot of shit[1], and a DroneTracker app is in fact pretty damn cool, original and fresh.
[1] I wouldn't normally do this on HN but since you've started it, I can enjoy slinging projectile poop as much as the next monkey.