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The curious thing here is I noticed this in my News app on my iPhone, I went to read more, but I had a message saying the story had been removed. Yet here it i

The curious thing here is I noticed this in my News app on my iPhone, I went to read more, but I had a message saying the story had been removed. Yet here it is; still on Ars Technica. Am I to infer that Apple censured this story in their News App? Its not appearing as a story in the Ars Technica channel, even thought it was recently posted. Does this then suggest that this is a hot issue for Apple?

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
> Am I to infer that Apple censured this story in their News App? I mean, I guess that's possible, but it seems much more likely that this is just a bug. The Apple News app can be weird sometimes.
52-6F-62 7y ago
AFAIU Apple doesn't touch much of the individual channels. They editorialize the main feeds by hand. If it's gone from Ars' channel then Ars must have removed the article from Apple News for whatever reason, possibly even by mistake.
penagwin 7y ago
I've noticed this with other stories, it feels more like we clicked the link when it wasn't updated to the latest news, somehow taking us to a stale page. It doesn't feel like censorship from what I've experienced, more like a link going stale or something - theres not really any common themes in the articles ice noticed.
machello13 7y ago
Much more critical stories of Apple than this one have been published on the News app. It's 100% a bug. Can you imagine the PR disaster if it turned out Apple was actively censoring negative stories about itself?
- zeristor 7y ago
  A bug? So how many stories don't get through. Is it that tricky to get a feed of stories and match them up with items appearing in the newsfeed? If its not going through you go back and check to see where the story is lost. I've done this on websites I was supporting, finding that people copying and pasting from PDF seem to have picked up a number of unicode control characters that hadn't been rinsed out when stored in SQL, and caused the web API to splutter. This was for item records clients were paying for so dropping records looks a bit naff. Enough of me though, dare I say it News has just one job, to show news.

Wowfunhappy 7y ago

> Am I to infer that Apple censured this story in their News App? I mean, I guess that's possible, but it seems much more likely that this is just a bug. The Apple News app can be weird sometimes.

52-6F-62 7y ago

AFAIU Apple doesn't touch much of the individual channels. They editorialize the main feeds by hand. If it's gone from Ars' channel then Ars must have removed the article from Apple News for whatever reason, possibly even by mistake.

penagwin 7y ago

I've noticed this with other stories, it feels more like we clicked the link when it wasn't updated to the latest news, somehow taking us to a stale page. It doesn't feel like censorship from what I've experienced, more like a link going stale or something - theres not really any common themes in the articles ice noticed.

machello13 7y ago

Much more critical stories of Apple than this one have been published on the News app. It's 100% a bug. Can you imagine the PR disaster if it turned out Apple was actively censoring negative stories about itself?

zeristor 7y ago
A bug? So how many stories don't get through. Is it that tricky to get a feed of stories and match them up with items appearing in the newsfeed? If its not going through you go back and check to see where the story is lost. I've done this on websites I was supporting, finding that people copying and pasting from PDF seem to have picked up a number of unicode control characters that hadn't been rinsed out when stored in SQL, and caused the web API to splutter. This was for item records clients were paying for so dropping records looks a bit naff. Enough of me though, dare I say it News has just one job, to show news.