Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store

Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by ALittleLight on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:18PM (#25691828)

Some of the screenshots seem objectionable, e.g. the one that wanted to burn down Pelosi's house while she was still inside, others seem like opinions, e.g. the one saying the protester shot by police was murdered, but none seem particularly bad, where "particularly bad" means "worse than content I'd find on Twitter".

Seems inconsistent to me to ban Parler and not Twitter. Also seems undesirable for a phone manufacturer to tell me what software I should or shouldn't use.

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by FireBeyond on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:30PM (#25692088)

https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1347609631527489537

> Many of Us will return ... carrying Our weapons. ... We will come in numbers that no standing army or police agency can match. However, the police are NOT our enemy, unless they choose to be!

> I hope the cop gets doxxed and murdered. That would be the only real justice.

> Federal swine most definitely. Dozens of them need to be eliminated.

>> All

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by bebopcowboy on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:22PM (#25693204)

These are basic calls for violence that twitter checkmarks get away with daily. Twitter doesn’t care if it’s directed at the people that they want dead.

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by burnthrow on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:52PM (#25692647)

> > Many of Us will return ... carrying Our weapons. ... We will come in numbers that no standing army or police agency can match. However, the police are NOT our enemy, unless they choose to be!

This is so embarrassing, you'd think people so hard right would remember the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Technology lols at their "numbers."

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by ALittleLight on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:40AM (#25698052)

I don't think Trump supporters support the invasion of Iraq. Trump called it a disaster while running, for example.

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by FireBeyond on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:47PM (#25717215)

You can call its implementation a disaster while still agreeing with it. Trump has repeatedly talked about how we just need to go in there and take the oil", and anecdotally or otherwise, you're saying that support for military actions is lower among Trump supporters than liberals? That's going to be a challenge to reconcile or confirm - it doesn't really square.

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by alkonaut on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:15AM (#25699137)

It’s not the content that’s the issue here. It’s whether Apple believes they are actually enforcing their ToS with moderation. Currently they don’t.

The problem is that even if Parler wanted to moderate (I doubt it - they’d lose users) there is no way they could afford it unless they invent something very cost efficient and don’t rely on manual review.

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by MattGaiser on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:23PM (#25691933)

Twitter moderates. Parler is being required to do the same.

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