The BBC reports that officials for both the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Arlington National Cemetery are taking steps to discourage people from playing within the walls of either establishment, with the former labelling such a move as “extremely inappropriate”.
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Both national landmarks have released statements telling players to be please be respectful to the solemnity of the sites and avoid playing the game while visiting.
The museum in southern Poland said it had asked the studio Niantic Labs, which developed the game, to remove Auschwitz from the application’s possible locations.
If you see a group of people in a public place glued to a smartphone or tablet, they’re likely playing “Pokemon Go”. The locations, known as “Pokestops” and “Gyms”, are based on landmarks submitted by players of Niantic’s earlier game, “Ingress”.
Of particular concern Tuesday was an issue related to “Pokemon GO” users who were on Apple’s iOS platform.
Pokemon Go allows players to search locations in the real world to find Pokemon creatures.
Clever coders like Manmeet Gill, a 13-year-old high school student in Sydney, Australia, even found evidence in the “Pokemon Go” app code that burger giant McDonald’s may be preparing to sponsor locations in the game.
“Millions of people have suffered and died because of various genocides in our world, and we cover some of them in this museum”.
The game, a mobile app called Pokemon Go, was released July 6 and, like a fictional zombie apocalypse, has spread at an unprecedented rate. And the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles, and Ground Zero memorial, are PokéStops.
There is a snap surfacing online showing a player’s screen cap of “Pokemon Go” monster, named Coffing, which is resting in front of Holocaust Museum’s Helena Rubinstein Auditorium.
He also added that “technology can be an important learning tool” and that the museum encourages visitors to use their smartphones in order to engage with exhibits, however, “this game falls far outside of our educational and memorial mission”.
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But, it looks like Holocaust Museum is not a fan of “Pokemon Go” as it wants the gamers out of their place, The Washington Post reported.
