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>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 th
by mzs 6y ago
>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 https://twitter.com/arawnsley/status/1347705034184777742
- dmitrygr 6y agoWhich 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.
- p1318820 6y agoWhy 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.
- agensaequivocum 6y ago> 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.
- mzs 6y agoAll 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.
- Anon1096 6y agoThat 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.
- thamer 6y agoTwitter 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.
- welcome_dragon 6y agoCan I play Devil's advocate here? Why not lock out browsers that aren't controlled by the os? What about email clients?
- lifeformed 6y agoApple 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.