Apple kicked Parler off the App Store, and a lot of people are screaming at Apple, including powerful politicians.
In any case, part of my previous comment was noting how the decade+ of the App Store has actually contributed to and encouraged the advertised-financed "attention economy". Apple wasn't just an innocent bystander that whole time; they designed the platform and the App Store.
It's the lesser of two evils for Apple. So instead of pissing off their customers, they have chosen to piss off Facebook.