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Drug Policy Alliance: Google Should Follow Apple’s Lead and Remove Video Games Glorifying the Drug War in the Philippines

President of Philippines Rodrigo Duterte
President of Philippines Rodrigo Duterte (Source: Yahoo.com)

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 30, 2017

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By: Hannah Hetzer

The President of the Philippines is responsible for a brutal drug war that has killed thousands of people in his country. He is also the protagonist in a series of online video games that glorify these murders. In these games, players act as Duterte and score points by eliminating “criminals”, “zombies”, and “people infected by drugs”, echoing the stigmatizing language

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