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Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by saagarjha on Saturday October 10, 2020 @04:19AM (#24737417)
Not only are you forced to follow whatever Apple tells you to do, you’re not allowed to communicate as such because it might make Apple look bad to users who don’t know any better. It’s really a quite inconvenient situation.
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Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by boudin on Saturday October 10, 2020 @04:26AM (#24737458)
That's been a technique that apple have been using quite a bit. Forbid apps to be transparent with their customers around apple rules. This way app users are pissed at the app makers not apple.
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Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by kinkrtyavimoodh on Saturday October 10, 2020 @02:11PM (#24740720)
The sheer chutzpah of claiming "Apple eats 30% of all charitable donations made on the app" is an irrelevant piece of information to the end-user.

This is the kind of behavior that only comes from a company that knows they can get away with murder, and when that happens, it's time to tighten the screw a bit before things get waaay out of hand.

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Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by kossTKR on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:26AM (#24737946)
Can you give any examples of this happening? Not doubting at all.
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Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by summerlight on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:35AM (#24737996)
One of the most recent case: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/28/apple-rejects-facebook-app-t...
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Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by kossTKR on Saturday October 10, 2020 @07:15AM (#24738148)
Interesting. I have always found NDA stuff some of the grosses legal concepts emerging, and in this case it's not even an agreement, it's pure blackmail.
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Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by akudha on Saturday October 10, 2020 @05:48AM (#24737791)
Isn't this the same tactic that govt agencies use? Apple is simply borrowing the idea
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Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by boudin on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:07AM (#24737859)
And? It's not an excuse.
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Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by akudha on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:53AM (#24738064)
I never said it is an excuse.
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Re:Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in B... by halter73 on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:49AM (#24738047)
Are you referring to gag orders related to ongoing criminal investigations or something else?
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