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Cool. Let me know when they ban the Twitter app. I've seen plenty of calls for violence by radical leftists on there. We wouldn't want Apple to progress inequality.
Twitter moderates their platform and when people violate the rules and Twitter notices (unless they're DJT, literally) they are banned. Apple wasn't saying Parler could have people post objectionable content, they said they had to make a real effort to do something about it. Mainstream social media took WAY TOO LONG to do this on their own platforms, but a lot changed in the past month or two, and Parler's plan to soak up all the Proud Boys on social media, which worked for a while, is now being squashed. GOOD.
 
I support this move but there are inconsistencies in application of Apple's actions in cases like this. Will Apple remove iMessage and Safari? Both allow for the proliferation of threats to people's safety. One could even argue using Apple's rationale that some agency needs to be able to moderate iMessages (e.g., a backdoor into the encryption). That would be unacceptable but is essentially the argument a number of governments and law enforcement agencies make.

Again, Apple is well within their rights to do this and I support this removal.
There’s certainly no perfect solution, but I’m fine with Apple removing a platform that insurrectionists are flocking to at this moment in time, even if it’s possible for them to go elsewhere. This is a situation where the best shouldn’t be the enemy of the good.
 
Cool. Let me know when they ban the Twitter app. I've seen plenty of calls for violence by radical leftists on there. We wouldn't want Apple to progress inequality.

yeah, here's reality. I remember seeing PLENTY of tweets from BLM groups that had no problem with stating they had every plan on going after anyone and everyone who didn't comply and or agree to their demands.

Of course no one is going to complain about those types of posts.....
 
Blm and the rioters spent all summer burning cities to the ground and looting and they all used social media like twitter and Facebook to spread the word so why wasn’t that banned of yeah it’s because they are the left, the right are peaceful apart from a few fools that was let in the capital and had selfies with officers and now all hell broke loose all the democrats that didn’t stop talking about how bad it was at the capital was fine all summer long cities being burnt to the group they called them peaceful protests, this is an attack of speech from people they don’t agree with
 
Disgusting work apple, why not remove twitter with people like the leader of Iran threatening to wipe israel off the map, all social media has bad on it, they really are banning all freedom of speech of any conservatives; all what is left is the radical left, it’s not healthy to only hear one side

This is EXACTLY what the radical left wants. They want everything to be on their terms and they have made that 99.999999% perfectly clear. Meanwhile their naive liberal supporters continue to fuel their movements......
 
Disgusting work apple, why not remove twitter with people like the leader of Iran threatening to wipe israel off the map, all social media has bad on it, they really are banning all freedom of speech of any conservatives; all what is left is the radical left, it’s not healthy to only hear one side
Because Twitter has proper moderation tools in place.

It literally did remove a tweet from Iran's top leader just recently https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/twi...li-khamenei-tweet-for-violating-rules-2350152
 
I support this move but there are inconsistencies in application of Apple's actions in cases like this. Will Apple remove iMessage and Safari? Both allow for the proliferation of threats to people's safety. One could even argue using Apple's rationale that some agency needs to be able to moderate iMessages (e.g., a backdoor into the encryption). That would be unacceptable but is essentially the argument a number of governments and law enforcement agencies make.

Again, Apple is well within their rights to do this and I support this removal.
Why don't you add, "Why doesn't Apple ban the phone app from iPhones, it can be used to discuss illegal things." See how poor an argument that is.

Safari and Messages are basic communications tools, they are not even "aware" of the content flowing through them. Third party applications hosted on the app store are another story entirely. Apple's policies are very consistent (well, at least now that FB and Twitter are actually starting to enforce their own rules a bit more, over the past month or so).
 
So when is Twitter being banned? Just wondering as the big trend was “Hang Mike Pence” and as Apple said: "no place on our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity,” or is this just the Tim Cook hypocrisy. Maybe if Cook just came out and said “no republican/conservative apps allowed” then at least I’d really know where he stands.
 
Cool. Let me know when they ban the Twitter app. I've seen plenty of calls for violence by radical leftists on there. We wouldn't want Apple to progress inequality.
The issue is the moderation policy more than the content (although content matters). Twitter has a solid moderation policy, at least in theory. It's not perfect and there are specific biases in moderation but there is a clear policy.

Parler is, as Apple is arguing, lacking in specific moderation policies. They can be back on the App Store once their policies are clarified.
 
He is right you just don’t wanna hear the truth
No application should allow threats of violence and sedition, PERIOD. I don't know a whole lot of reasonable people who disagree with this. But I do see some people complaining that Parler, an app specifically set up to give neo nazis a home online, which was and continues to be actively used to plot violent overthrow of our democracy (you know, that little coup thing that was televised this past Wednesday that the whole world saw?)

And please, saying you've seen violent posts on Twitter just doesn't make it true. Maybe, maybe not. Report them, and yes, let's hope anyone, from any stripe, planning violence on these platforms is banned. Again, nobody of any reason disagrees with this, certainly not on the left.

No but please, keep defending the Proud Boys and the other scum who used Parler from day 1 as their tool to plot violence, totally out in the open, with zero moderation at all. It's a great look for you.
 
They are acting like trump supporters are dangerous people are they forgetting Kamala telling the rioters at blm to carry on and all summer liberals spread hatred also on Twitter when trump had covid they all said hope he died, when joe Biden won not one trump supporter started anything at any rallies nothing at all just good people loving their country it was only a few idiots the other day which isn’t trumps fault and how dare they act like it’s dangerous for trump to speak, he didn’t tell anyone to do this he is all about law and order, facebook and twitter is full of radical lefties that helped cause a summer of rage and nothing was done, I’m sick of this and I will still love and use apple products but the company can do one, they are just as bad as all the elites
 
They are acting like trump supporters are dangerous people are they forgetting Kamala telling the rioters at blm to carry on and all summer liberals spread hatred also on Twitter when trump had covid they all said hope he died, when joe Biden won not one trump supporter started anything at any rallies nothing at all just good people loving their country it was only a few idiots the other day which isn’t trumps fault and how dare they act like it’s dangerous for trump to speak, he didn’t tell anyone to do this he is all about law and order, facebook and twitter is full of radical lefties that helped cause a summer of rage and nothing was done, I’m sick of this and I will still love and use apple products but the company can do one, they are just as bad as all the elites
This is adorable.
 
It seems like you associate with the Proud Boys and other neo nazi white power movements, if you feel you have to go to Parler to express your thoughts. I don't see conservatives being banned from Twitter, Facebook, or anything. Parler is being used to plan violent sedition, and what you are doing my friend (sarcastic, you're not my friend) is acknowledging that what remains of a huge swathe of the GOP (that means Republican Party, it stands for Grand Old Pa-- oh, never mind) is just a bunch of folks who want to plan and commit violence and overthrow democracy. This is what your Orange Overlord has commanded of you, after all. Let's see how well giving up mind and soul to DJT goes for the Repub cultists who cling to Trump.
I wouldn’t of used Parler if they didn’t ban trump and other big conservatives yes there are some weirdos on Parler but so is twitter it’s fall of radical left
 
Why don't you add, "Why doesn't Apple ban the phone app from iPhones, it can be used to discuss illegal things." See how poor an argument that is.

Safari and Messages are basic communications tools, they are not even "aware" of the content flowing through them. Third party applications hosted on the app store are another story entirely. Apple's policies are very consistent (well, at least now that FB and Twitter are actually starting to enforce their own rules a bit more, over the past month or so).
I wasn't saying those arguments were valid, just that people could make them. I was stating them to get discussion going. It apparently worked.

Twitter, Parler, Facebook, Reddit, Parler, etc. could all be classified as "basic communication tools". There are places in the world where Facebook is more or less the web, just as AOL was for years for many people. There are times I've used Facebook to communicate much more than by phone or text. That's no longer the case for me (no Facebook account any more) but I have a number of acquaintances who primarily use Facebook to communicate.

In any case, Parler is essentially saying the same thing -- they are not "aware" of the content flowing through them, or at least are not responsible for the content flowing through them. That's more or less been one of the core tenets of the web for its entire existence. Are content hosts responsible for the content? Saying categorically "yes" is problematic.
 
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