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by crxgames 4007 days ago
This is ridiculous. I bet they leave Nazi WWII games.
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This is, quite possibly, reasonable.

As you point out, they probably approve WWII historical games with Nazi symbols in them. But they probably don't approve content that glorifies Naziism.

So if you have content that wasn't similarly vetted regarding the CORRECTION: Army of Northern Virginia battle flag (not "stars and bars"), what can you do but de-authorize all of it and start over?

What can you do? How about not kowtowing to the outrage of the week and indiscriminately banning games because they have images of the flag? I don't think any of these games are glorifying the Confederacy.
Nitpick: the "Stars and Bars" flag and the ANV battle flag are not the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_State...
Hardly a nitpick! That deserves a correction. "Stars and bars" is a commonplace misnomer. Army of Northern Virginia battle flag is probably the correct thing to call it.