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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by mzs on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:24PM (#25694561)
>Anyone who buys an Apple phone is apparently a user. Apparently they know what is best for you by telling you which apps you may and may not use. Apparently they believe Parler is responsible for ALL user generated content on Parler. Therefor by the same logic, Apple must be responsible for ALL actions taken by their phones. Every car bomb, every illegal cell phone conversation, every illegal crime committed on an iPhone, Apple must also be responsible for.... Standards not applied to Twitter, Facebook or even Apple themselves, apply to Parler.

>>Jan 8, 2021

>>To the developers of the Parler app require your immediate attention regarding…

>>… intended to incite violence or other lawless acts has never been acceptable on the App Store.

>>Your CEO was quoted recently saying l'But I don't feel responsible for any of this and neither should the platform, considering we're a neutral town square that just adheres to the law!' We want to be clear that Parler is in fact responsible for all the user generated content present on your service and for ensuring that this content meets App Store requirements for the safety and protection of our users. We won't distribute apps that present dangerous and harmful content.

>>We have now rejected your app for the App Store Review Guidelines detailed below.

* https://twitter.com/arawnsley/status/1347705034184777742

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by lifeformed on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:26PM (#25696960)
Apple says Parler has insufficient moderation policies, not that a single offending post is grounds for banning the whole app. Running an app on an app store means you abide by the content policies of that store. The content people post isn't the platforms responsibility, but moderation of it is.
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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by welcome_dragon on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:28PM (#25696302)
Can I play Devil's advocate here? Why not lock out browsers that aren't controlled by the os? What about email clients?
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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by Anon1096 on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:50PM (#25695057)
That sounds exactly correct to me. Apple isn't policing content on Twitter. It isn't policing content on Facebook. It isn't policing content on Reddit. And it most certainly isn't policing content on iMessage.
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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by thamer on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:25PM (#25695552)
Twitter and Facebook (combined) have tens of thousands of employees moderating content and threats of violence lead to bans on these platforms, but not on Parler. The difference is pretty clear and it has nothing to do with Apple policing content themselves.
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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by dmitrygr on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:29PM (#25694672)
Which part of what he said do you feel is incorrect? Facebook and Twitter indeed are not being held to the same standard. They have a 0% chance of being removed from any app store no matter what. Hell, the whole time Twitter allowed Trump to tweet and gave him a platform, they were threatened with app store delisting precisely 0 times.
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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by p1318820 on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:42PM (#25694914)
Why do you feel that they should be held to the same standard?

Violent content is a tiny of percentage of twitter, but a huge part of parler. Twitter also does moderate their platform, Parler refuses to.

One of these obviously has a bigger problem with violent content than the other.

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by agensaequivocum on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:04AM (#25698193)
> Violent content is a tiny of percentage of twitter, but a huge part of parler.

You're going to have to show me some actual percentages for each platform and how you define "violent content" before I agrees with your premise.

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by mzs on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:44PM (#25694935)
All I'm saying is that likely this time tomorrow Parler will be no longer available on the Apple App Store based on the contents of that post.
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