White House Game Removed After Copyright Complaint | Tech News

0:00It's September 8th. Welcome in. This is TechNews Today, where the future meets AI. So the White House had this game on their website called Build the Wall. It was basically like Tetris, where you stack blocks, but the whole point was to build a wall to keep out some kind of zombie border siege. It got a lot of heat, with people calling it racist, and now it's gone. The game disappeared from the White House site, showing a 404 error, which means the page isn't there anymore. This happened after the folks who owned the Tetris game, the Tetris company, apparently made a complaint. This whole situation is pretty wild. You had a game on the official government website that was designed to look like a popular game, but with a political agenda. The criticism was pretty immediate, and it seems like that pressure led to its removal. Meanwhile, another game called Real Run is still up on the site. In that one, you play as a character trying to deport immigrants. It definitely adds to the controversy surrounding the games that were featured.

1:00It's a strange chapter, seeing these kinds of games on a presidential website. The fact that one was taken down after a copyright complaint, while another with a different but equally charged theme, remains, tells you something. About the priorities and the public reaction.