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Re:Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Us... by dilap on Sunday July 30, 2017 @11:45AM (#14886410)
Setting aside our debate about if free speech is an absolute, cross-cultural moral right or more of a trade-off with other values up to each culture to decide...

Apple itself is a long way from being the free speech crusader you are hoping for; in fact, they are clearly quite pro-censorship: just look at the App store. It's ridiculously censored! The refusals to approve the drone strike app Metadata+ and the Twitter-alternatie Gab strike me as particularly egregious. See also the section "1.1 Objectionable Content" of the app store review guidelines -- it's like stepping back in time to the worst caricature of 1950s America prudery and censorship.

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Re:Apple Removes Apps from China Store That Help Internet Us... by AnthonyMouse on Monday July 31, 2017 @09:30AM (#14891734)
> Apple itself is a long way from being the free speech crusader you are hoping for; in fact, they are clearly quite pro-censorship: just look at the App store. It's ridiculously censored!

This a "two wrongs don't make a right" type situation.

In fact, if the pressure from this could get them to stop doing that, all the better.

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