p>Article content from Hartford, Conn. - The creator of a school shooting video game that was criticized by parents of children who have been killed is no longer able to sell its merchandise online after being dumped by PayPal?.
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p>Article content Acid Software announced Tuesday that purchases of "Active Shooter" were "temporarily removed" as its representatives attempted to resolve the issues through PayPal?. Acid's postings on Twitter and an online bulletin board included the hashtags "QuitCensoringUs?," "FreedomOfExpression?" and "WeWillBeBack?."
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p>PayPal? blocks school shooting game sales
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p>PayPal? confirmed that the account had been closed.
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p>Content of the article "PayPal? has a long-standing well-defined and consistently enforced Acceptable Use Policy, and regardless of the person or the organization involved we strive to ensure that our services are not used to accept payments for activities that promote violence," the company, located in San Jose, California, said in a statement Wednesday.
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p>"Active Shooter" can be described as an SWAT simulator. It allows players to choose whether they want to be a terror to a school or respond to the shooting. The players can choose between weapons such as a grenade, gun or knife as well as civilian and police death totals are shown on the screen. Acid was selling an early version of the game on the internet for $20 and plans to release a new version in the early part of next month.
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p>After the game was taken down by Indiegogo and video game marketplace Steam Article content Acid set up two websites for Active Shooter. These removals were prompted by online petitions and complaints from anti-gun violence groups including parents of children who lost their children in school shootings in Parkland (Florida) in which 17 students and staff were killed in February.
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p>A company hosting the new websites shut them down this week after receiving similar complaints. Acid was able to get the websites back up and running by switching to Russian servers, according to Ata Berdyev, a resident of Seattle. https://coderwall.com/p/objmuw/answers-to-computer-networking </p>
p>Anton Makarevskiy (21-year-old Russian developer) invented "Active Shooter". Acid Software is marketing the game. Berdyev helps Makarevskiy to promote the game.
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p>Berdyev told reporters on Wednesday that the future of the sport could now be in doubt.
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p>"Seems like everyone else in the US trying to shut us down without explaining the exact nature of what we're doing," Berdyev said in a message to The Associated Press.
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