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Apple Removes Parler From App Store Due to 'Inadequate' Measures to Address Dangerous Content
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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.
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.
We can still use the web site so they can’t silence them, this is an attack on freedom of speech and to ban all conservative voices
Prison would be ideal IMHO.
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.....
All this because of a few fools that started, what happened to blm and the riots all summer they all used twitter and Facebook to spread hate so why isn’t that banned
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
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......
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
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).
Good thing we have such shining examples in Facebook and Twitter that are still in the store... because, you know, they are the epicenter of cleanliness and shining examples of upholding Apple Guidelines. /s 
Took them long enough! While people might still login using a browser, there’s one thing we can all count on: people’s laziness often outweighs their outrage.
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.
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.
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.
Well when Twitter is seeing “Hang Mike Pence” trending why wouldn’t Twitter self police and ban those accounts as well?
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
Amen to this.Good thing we have such shining examples in Facebook and Twitter that are still in the store... because, you know, they are the epicenter of cleanliness and shining examples of upholding Apple Guidelines. /s
Won’t be long until this thread is closed again. MacRumors certainly offers a wide variety of anger these days.
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
What have I said which is wrong because it’s all facts but the left can’t deal with facts can they
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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