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I can understand your disbelief. But what do you have to back your assertions (that this is "not true" & "misinformation") that we should believe your claims ov

I can understand your disbelief. But what do you have to back your assertions (that this is "not true" & "misinformation") that we should believe your claims over that of the developer (who has also posted a screenshot of the email he got from Apple)?

uniqueid 5y ago
what do you have to back your assertions After reading @fredros's comment here, I no longer feel confident that my statement that the "Qur'an is legal in the PRC" is much of an argument. The other assertions I made were that 'the Qur'an is sacred to 1/4 of the world' and that 'banning any holy book is PR suicide'. I can't muster enthusiasm to defend those. They seem clear-cut to me. As I read the original tweet, it sounded like Apple had banned the Qur'an (ie: its contents) from the its store in China. But that is the dev's conjecture. I'm sure Apple banned his/her particular Qur'an app, but there currently are too few details to know why.
- yorwba 5y ago
  > Apple banned his/her particular Qur'an app, but there currently are too few details to know why He appears to not be a Chinese citizen. Foreigners are banned from engaging in a whole lot of religion-adjacent activities in China, including publishing religious texts. http://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2000/content_60501.htm http://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2000/content_60501.htm Article 17, item 6.
  - uniqueid 5y ago
    Thanks. That relates to the same point I conceded, but it's still interesting. Unfortunately I seem to have turned conjecture from someone's tweet into a large thread which was the opposite of what I wanted. We have some developer's speculation and now we're all debating and theorizing about it (which why social media is a $%#* pile of rubbish). Perhaps next week Apple Developer Relations will get back to this dev with more specifics. Perhaps next week we'll find same is happening to other people's Qur'an apps. But at the moment all thousands of us people discussing this tweet on social media are just bumbling around in the dark.

uniqueid 5y ago

what do you have to back your assertions After reading @fredros's comment here, I no longer feel confident that my statement that the "Qur'an is legal in the PRC" is much of an argument. The other assertions I made were that 'the Qur'an is sacred to 1/4 of the world' and that 'banning any holy book is PR suicide'. I can't muster enthusiasm to defend those. They seem clear-cut to me. As I read the original tweet, it sounded like Apple had banned the Qur'an (ie: its contents) from the its store in China. But that is the dev's conjecture. I'm sure Apple banned his/her particular Qur'an app, but there currently are too few details to know why.

yorwba 5y ago
> Apple banned his/her particular Qur'an app, but there currently are too few details to know why He appears to not be a Chinese citizen. Foreigners are banned from engaging in a whole lot of religion-adjacent activities in China, including publishing religious texts. http://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2000/content_60501.htm http://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2000/content_60501.htm Article 17, item 6.
- uniqueid 5y ago
  Thanks. That relates to the same point I conceded, but it's still interesting. Unfortunately I seem to have turned conjecture from someone's tweet into a large thread which was the opposite of what I wanted. We have some developer's speculation and now we're all debating and theorizing about it (which why social media is a $%#* pile of rubbish). Perhaps next week Apple Developer Relations will get back to this dev with more specifics. Perhaps next week we'll find same is happening to other people's Qur'an apps. But at the moment all thousands of us people discussing this tweet on social media are just bumbling around in the dark.