Apple Rejecting Coronavirus Apps Not From Health or Government Organizations

[citysnaps]

Love the deduction-skills, but you are still not answering the question.. let me try: you (and I) don’t know, therefore this is censoring and with that manipulating your/mine information. Now we might miss a perhaps brilliant solution from a less well known (non)scientist.
Stopping information is no solution, learning to asses it is..

No, that is not censoring. If Apple, a non-government entity, does not want to take on the risk of having potentially harmful information distributed to the public using their App Store system since they're not qualified to assess which information is harmful and which is not, they're certainly not obligated to take on that liability.

"Now we might miss a perhaps brilliant solution from a less well known (non)scientist."

That's not science. If you want to take on the risk of taking such non peer-reviewed advice, simply google the internet and follow whatever comes your way. Hopefully you're a medical doctor or epidemiologist and can make sound choices. If you're not, good luck.

 

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No, that is not censoring. If Apple, a non-government entity, does not want to take on the risk of having potentially harmful information distributed to the public using their App Store system since they're not qualified to assess which information is harmful and which is not, they're certainly not obligated to take on that liability.

"Now we might miss a perhaps brilliant solution from a less well known (non)scientist."

That's not science. If you want to take on the risk of taking such non peer-reviewed advice, simply google the internet and follow whatever comes your way. Hopefully you're a medical doctor or epidemiologist and can make sound choices. If you're not, good luck.

I am and that’s why I do not want any information/review on this matter being held back, this is not china or russia. I need to make sound choices on the basis of ALL available info, not only the information which passes the applefilters. There is no time for scientific trials with this virus, this is a time for helping people with virusrelated health issues and in the mean time recording everything noteworthy to aid to a possible future cure/care.

At the very least apple should be crystal clear about these filters and let it be subject to scrutiny otherwise it IS censoring/witholding evidence.

 

[citysnaps]

I am and that’s why I do not want any information/review on this matter being held back, this is not china or russia. I need to make sound choices on the basis of ALL available info, not only the information which passes the applefilters. There is no time for scientific trials with this virus, this is a time for helping people with virusrelated health issues and in the mean time recording everything noteworthy to aid to a possible future cure/care.

At the very least apple should be crystal clear about these filters and let it be subject to scrutiny otherwise it IS censoring/witholding evidence.

Again...if Apple decides it's not able to take on the liability of potentially providing harmful information to their customers, that's their decision. And a smart one.

Since you're a medical doctor, simply google to your heart's content for information on the internet. It's easy. Good luck.

 

[kobalap]

It’s a good thing that developers can distribute their iOS apps via browser download like Mac apps can...oh wait, the private market doesn’t decide what is important on iOS, Apple does

Of course they do. It’s their product and their OS.

You don’t like it, there is this thing called a web browser. It allows you to go to whatever website you want - even ones that have content that is not vetted.

 

[orthorim]

right choice, need data from a single source ... in and for the US: CDC

The utter stupidity of this statement is only eclipsed by the 9 or whatever likes it got.

People seem to have forgotten freedom of speech and seem to have forgotten why it was not just considered a good thing but considered an absolutely essential right for any democracy. Without it, there is no democracy - at all.

Data necessarily needs to be allowed from all sources, whether you consider it fake or not - the right information will find its way to the top quite naturally.

Color me crazy but I trust the government about as far as I can throw them. The government is the one to gain the most from a corona "pandemic" to play captain obvious here. Nothing like a good pandemic to make people scream for big brother to help them - which makes it much more likely, over time, big brother in perhaps attempt to skew reports this way ... a firefighter sets a fire because it makes him indispensable.

It's bad enough Apple playing God almighty and deciding what's true, but what is worse is people actually demanding their information to be censored. The stupidity of that is hard to exaggerate.
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Apple needs to urgently allow independent app stores.

It's not sustainable at their scale to play God over apps these days, and they have to make a lot of decisions that a tech company should never have to make. Google doesn't make either, despite being a huge corporation.

For example there's protests in Hong Kong, China doesn't like it, and Apple has to ban the app they use to organize themselves - or else! Apple has no choice but to comply - China can severely hurt or even kill Apple were they to for example ban Apple products in the PRC. Whoops! Why is Apple in that situation? Becauee they chose to have draconian control over apps.

They need to loosen the control - the best solution would be to decentralize app store review processes, but also alternative app stores that have more leeway on what to allow.

Apple simply can't be responsible.

Now there's a good chance the official organizations, who have the most to gain from misinformation, are making stuff up and again Apple makes a decision on who is right and who is wrong in an area of health - it's got no business being in that.