"“Unchecked threats to reliable information imperil our civic institutions, social stability, and democratic norms...”
Posted on 04/27/2022 6:31:08 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
A left-wing government watchdog group with a dubious history is demanding Apple engage in mass preemptive censorship with the removal of a free-speech-branded alternative to Twitter from its app store.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a four-page letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday urging the American tech executive to nuke former President Donald Trump’s new platform, Truth Social, from its digital marketplace despite no violations of company guidelines.
“The events of January 6, 2021 highlighted not only democracy’s vulnerabilities, but also the risks associated with the current ecosystem of online speech,” wrote CREW President Noah Bookbinder in the letter. “Every company that now enters into business with Trump must recognize that it is essentially endorsing this dangerous and anti-democratic conduct.”
With not a single post from the entire platform cited or a single company policy violated to justify the app’s removal, Bookbinder argued Truth Social’s association with Trump was enough reason alone to ban the product from the Apple marketplace.
“Unchecked threats to reliable information imperil our civic institutions, social stability, and democratic norms,” Bookbinder wrote, implying that inadequate censorship of dissident ideas is a threat to democracy.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
These fascists sure are a scream.
Liberal left hates the 1st and 2nd amendments with a passion. I wonder just how much of the constitution they would eliminate if they could.
Wow, four pages long. It must’ve taken the whole staff at CREW for a letter that long.
Can’t you see them now, they likely had monetary incentives for best lines to insert and if you came up with novel attack you probably got a week long vacation at Disney World.
These people are sick.
Yes...and now Trump can sue them for their censorship!
What does it matter if the damn thing doesn’t work anyway?!
I haven’t downloaded it but apparently the bugs are out. It’s #1 on Apple right now... Elon Musk noted that this morning.. why he did, I don’t know.
No he can’t, as they can’t censor anything.
Only Apple could remove the App.
Some fascists sitting in their mom’s basement writing a letter does nothing.
No one knows who these losers are, and no one cares.
I’m surprised this is news.
Not really much ‘in the news.’ Just this heads up from The Federalist, letting us know what the loonies are up to...
I like to read what the liberal loonies are up to, but this isn’t truly dangerous news or anything. It’s similar to three guys in Sandpoint Idaho saying they hate blacks.
/spit
All of it, in their ideal world they would make up or change the laws as needed, on a daily basis if necessary.
The Left will also tell you that the First Amendment only means the government can't shut you down--private businesses can. Well, if the government grants special favors or treatment to private businesses to get them to behave a certain way, it has the same effect as if the government sent troops to your house and arrested you.
LEFTIST: Democracy means whatever we want it to mean to further our cause
It’s working, although they could use Android and web apps.
Any lib lurkers out there, any middle-of-the-road types out there... Are you getting it yet? The left is (are) the new fascists. They want to censor and control everything. I guess when they cannot reasonably refute a position or argument they just want it suppressed. Dress it up, try to justify it however they want - but in the end it is still fear, still censorship, still tyranny. That's the left.
Ban people from social media. Freak out when the new owner of a social media platform is going to remove bias. Now try to ban an entire social media platform. Hey, why don't they just skip to the end and put on their brown shirts and jackboots now.
I’m stuck at the “verify your phone number” part.
Does Truth Social have a web site for desktop users to participate? I aint living on my cell phone for this crap any more than bookface.
I hear a desktop app is coming.
First, the left said, “You don’t like it? Build your own!” Then when conservatives started building their own, the left tries to de-platform them and shut them down.
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