Josh Begley from The Intercept created an app that would allow Americans to keep track of the number of U.S. drone strikes that are done abroad and how many people died as a result of those strikes. It turns out that Apple has denied that app multiple times. It first happened when the app was named Drone+.

Ana Kasparian (The Point) and Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?!) hosts of The Young Turks discuss. Why do you think Apple removed these apps? Let us know in the comments.

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The app, created by Josh Begley, a data artist and editor at The Intercept, sends push notifications to keep users updated with drone attacks around the world. The concept, despite being a highly useful news resource, was rejected repeatedly under the name ‘Drones+’ for being “not useful or entertaining enough”.

The app was resubmitted by Begley under a different name, ‘Metadata+’, and was approved immediately last year, and had been functioning before it was pulled last weekend due to “excessively crude or objectionable content”.

Metadata+ never featured graphic evidence of drone strikes and was a text-based and map-based app.

As Begley pointed out in 2012, there is a game on the app store in which you play as a drone and carry out strikes, which apparently was not deemed crude or objectionable.