While I have been a huge fan of Apple (owned every single generation of iPhone from the original one to 12 Pro Max, several MacBook Pros, a handful of iPads and several iPods back in the day) I will not stand for this. Banning stuff like Epic for willingly circumventing AppStore rules is one thing, but banning an app because you don't like what it's used for is total censorship. While using Android or any other OS may not be as easy and enjoyable as iOS, macOS, etc., I will NOT stand for censorship. If Apple does this, I am done.
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Apple Threatens to Ban Parler From App Store as Twitter Bans Donald Trump
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Goodbye Free Speech, Hello dictatorship!
This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the internet. Whether you swing to the right or the left politically, what the events of the past few days have shown all of us is that Big Tech is far too powerful an entity and seemingly beyond the reach of even the highest office. These Tech conglomerates in Silicon Valley have revealed their monopoly on our digital communication networks and the impunity they have to act as they please without repercussions, all under the guise of "it's a private company bro they can do what they want". Something needs to be done.
bro they ban you for speech and tell you to get your own site , you make your own site then app , then they try to ban you to get your own servers you then make your own servers , then they try to ban you from even searching or downloading even the self owned app this is why dot win sites came out against reddit. and yet you people are still trying to ban it lol. literal fascism
Parler can go on being a browser only service. Apple is in their full right to kick them out of their store. Just means it’s users will be on the web instead of a app.
who cares......this whole thing is dumb.......
It’s definitely fair to remove it if posts on their platform that violate App Store rules, such as threats of violence and hate speech, are not moderated and removed.
Literal fascism is what is being banned.
Apple banning would just remove it from the App Store. Parler is free to exist somewhere else 🤷🏻♂️
Apple is a private company and can remove content from their store to protect their brand.
I've officially deleted my accounts on both Twitter and Facebook. They won’t care but I do and I won’t have deal with their garbage.
So, you're okay with the destruction of human life?
If China was involved in censorship, the people planning the attacks on Parler would have gone missing already.
Wait, they're censoring him from using their platform just for inciting riot that led to a breach to our Federal institutions and the death of five people? Not in my America!
There definitely won’t be any blowback from this. Nope, nothing to see here.
That’s not what they’re doing, which you’d know if you read the article.
It has nothing to do with “points of view,” unless you consider plotting violence to be just another perspective.
How is this not a freedom of speech issue? Apple is threatening to ban an app for refusing to censor certain opinions.
If only iDevice users could easily download and install the app directly from the company like you can with macOS apps and bypass the walled garden....
It's hilarious how the group who's always pointing their fingers and laughing at others for going to their "safe space"...so desperately needs their own. Fox News, Brietbart, OAN, Parler...
Why stop at Parler? What about Twitter & FB? Oh yeah I forgot $
From what, 75 million Americans?
Parler is not being banned to hinder free speech. Trump is planning to go to Parler and law enforcement already knows of plans from certain individuals to use Parler to plan another attack on the Capitol.
Include Safari also while at it. You bet baddies use it.
It's a digital dictatorship. We allowed Silicon Valley to make us all this cool stuff and we turned a blind eye to how much control we allowed them to retain. We didn't want to play a part in the process of governing the information they had control over, and now they stand as questionably the tallest peak of power in the United States, beyond even the highest elected office of president of the United States. That's too much power for these "companies" to hold.
If you use a famous quote, you might want to give credit to its author, Martin Niemöller, and the context would not hurt, either.
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