{"id":28627,"date":"2017-03-28T14:25:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=28627"},"modified":"2017-03-28T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T01:29:36","slug":"whats-excessively-objectionable-or-crude-about-this-antiwar-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/28\/whats-excessively-objectionable-or-crude-about-this-antiwar-app\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s &#8216;Excessively Objectionable or Crude&#8217; About This Antiwar App?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Five years ago, I made a simple iPhone app. It would send you a push notification every time a U.S. drone strike was reported in the news. Apple rejected the app three times, calling it &#8220;excessively objectionable or crude content.&#8221;&#8230;\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/03\/28\/after-12-rejections-apple-accepts-app-that-tracks-u-s-drone-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> &#8212;<\/span>After 12 Rejections, Apple Accepts App<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, is it the covert U.S. drone strikes, the people who carry them out and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/08\/collateral-damage-the-equations\/\">civilians they kill<\/a>,\u00a0 the App that let&#8217;s folks track them, or is it Apple for trying to censor that information which is &#8220;<i>objectionable<\/i>&#8221; and &#8220;<i>crude<\/i>?&#8221;\u00a0 <small><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you want it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Five years ago, I made a simple iPhone app. It would send you a push notification every time a U.S. drone strike was reported in the news. Apple rejected the app three times, calling it &#8220;excessively objectionable or crude content.&#8221;&#8230;\u00a0 &#8212;After 12 Rejections, Apple Accepts App So, is it the covert U.S. drone strikes, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28633,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28627\/revisions\/28633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28627"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}