LONDON (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's <GOOGL.O> Google has suspended a role-playing app associated with the Hong Kong protests due to a policy that prohibits developers capitalizing on ongoing conflicts, the company said on Thursday.
A Google spokesman said that "The Revolution Of Our Times" app, which lets users role-play as Hong Kong protesters, violated a long-standing policy "prohibiting developers from capitalizing on sensitive events, such as attempting to make money from serious ongoing conflicts or tragedies through a game".
Google's decision came during the same week as Apple removed the HKmap.live app, which crowdsources the locations of both police and protesters, from its app store. <nL2N26V038>
Four months of large and often violent pro-democracy protests in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong pose the biggest popular challenge to President Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Culliford; Editing by Nick Macfie)
