Baby Shaker

Apple's App Store, often lambasted for being slow and excessively conservative in its approval process, is now apologizing for having approved a game where players kill babies by shaking them to death.

"This application was deeply offensive and should not have been approved for distribution on the App Store," the company said. " When we learned of this mistake, the app was removed immediately. We sincerely apologize for this mistake and thank our customers for bringing this to our attention."

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"I support Apple pulling this app as it is their prerogative to set standards for what apps they will distribute and what they deem inappropriate. Personally I did not find it funny and can't fault them for pulling it. If they had chosen to keep it I would have supported that choice as well. What?? If they decided to keep it what exactly did the do wrong? Is cartoon violence illegal? Censorship is generally something that is bad and something I despise and would support them for that reason alone.
I have a son that has Aspergers syndrome. He is a beautiful child that I love very much and would die protecting him. He has brought much joy to our life and never fails to amaze with how clever and special he is. However he can be such a pain in the ass that I have joked about beating, drowning, electrocuting and feeding him to wolves. I also used to joke and tell him to go play in traffic. If you had not spent time with him and me you would and should be shocked hearing this. However by the age of five he has had to be committed, damn near killed his baby sister, caused thousand in damage to our house and generally wreaked havoc on our family. I have made jokes about abuse and frustrtation like this to his pediatrician and case worker and they laughed. The pediatrician once told me that anyone else she would call social services but she had noticed that I use humor to relive stress and supported my methods. The case worker that helped provide support for us and was a fierce child advocate joked back once on how to beat him and not leave a mark. Both new that I was kidding and in fact rarely used corporal punishment because it general it only had a negative effect on him.
Using your standard I am a sick friendless fuck but I say screw you and your sanctimonious attitude. I can understand anyone that works with abused children being offended but try being the parent that not only does not abuse their child but continues to provide a good loving home."