Posted on 01/09/2021 2:35:32 PM PST by ransomnote
Apple has given Parler, the social network favored by conservatives and extremists, an ultimatum to implement a full moderation plan of its platform within the next 24 hours or face expulsion from the App store.
In an email sent this morning and obtained by BuzzFeed News, Apple wrote to Parler’s executives that there had been complaints that the service had been used to plan and coordinate the storming of the US Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters on Wednesday. The insurrection left five people dead, including a police officer.
"We have received numerous complaints regarding objectionable content in your Parler service, accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate the illegal activities in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021 that led (among other things) to loss of life, numerous injuries, and the destruction of property,” Apple wrote to Parler. “The app also appears to continue to be used to plan and facilitate yet further illegal and dangerous activities.”
The full text of the letter follows:
MORE AT LINKWe require your immediate attention regarding serious App Store guideline violations that we have found with your app, Parler.
We have received numerous complaints regarding objectionable content in your Parler service, accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate the illegal activities in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021 that led (among other things) to loss of life, numerous injuries, and the destruction of property. The app also appears to continue to be used to plan and facilitate yet further illegal and dangerous activities.
Our investigation has found that Parler is not effectively moderating and removing content that encourages illegal activity and poses a serious risk to the health and safety of users in direct violation of your own terms of service, found here: https://legal.parler.com/documents/Elaboration-on-Guidelines.pdf
Examples of these complaints can be viewed on these links:https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1347190280492089344?s=20
https://twitter.com/EmmanueLoree/status/1347260055410896897/photo/1
https://twitter.com/Lovedrea/status/1347263797614972928?s=20
https://twitter.com/Wilmographer/status/1346714000554303489?s=20
https://twitter.com/pjg0014/status/1347265499210592256?s=20
Content of this dangerous and harmful nature is not appropriate for the App Store. As you know from prior conversations with App Review, Apple requires apps with user generated content to effectively moderate to ensure objectionable, potentially harmful content is filtered out. Content that threatens the well being of others or is intended to incite violence or other lawless acts has never been acceptable on the App Store.
Your CEO was quoted recently saying "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.
Guideline 1.1 - Safety - Objectionable Content
We found that your app includes content that some users may find upsetting, offensive, or otherwise objectionable. Specifically, we found direct threats of violence and calls to incite lawless action.
Guideline 1.2 - Safety - User Generated Content
Your app enables the display of user-generated content but does not have sufficient precautions in place to effectively manage objectionable content present in your app.
See the attached screenshots for more details.
Next Steps
Nothing is more important to the App Store than the safety of our users. You must resolve these issue immediately for your app to remain on the App Store.
Please remove all objectionable content from your app and submit your revised binary for review. Such content includes any content similar to the examples attached to this message, as well as any content referring to harm to people or attacks on government facilities now or at any future date. In addition, you must respond to this message with detailed information about how you intend to moderate and filter this content from your app, and what you will do to improve moderation and content filtering your service for this kind of objectionable content going forward.
To ensure there is no interruption of the availability of your app on the App Store, please submit an update and the requested moderation improvement plan within 24 hours of the date of this message. If we do not receive an update compliant with the App Store Review Guidelines and the requested moderation improvement plan in writing within 24 hours, your app will be removed from the App Store.
If you have any questions about this message, please reply and let us know.
Regards,
App Review Board
Very Toxic images at link - I didn't copy them over because I didn't want FR accused of hosting the same "hate speech".
If anyone doesn’t think this was all planned over the last 4 years, I’ve got some swampland I’d like to sell you.
Conservatives are going to be outright silenced by every media and tech outlet. They’ve mastered election fraud. Now it’s time to silence dissent.
We are no longer a representative republic.
Covid was also planned and timed accordingly.
Gay company. Haven’t bought their overpriced crap in a decade.
The internet and the cheap, powerful devices that most of us have to communicate on it, have changed the way society and politics functions to the point that I personally think rules about its use need to be added to the constitution.
So what? It's not like you can't get it elsewhere.
I hear it sucks anyway.
I would not put it past Mozilla to start modding their browser to restrict one from going to conservative sites. Same thing with Google and Chrome.
Mozilla constitutes less than 10% of the browsers used around the world. Google’s Chrome is the king. Mozilla is very small potatoes.
Yes it was planned. Yesterday was social media black Friday.
• Trump was banned from Twitter
• Twitter banned a host of Trump supporters
• Google removed the Parler app from its store
• Apple started the procedure to remove Parler from its store
• Gab was unavailable all day Friday (seems to be due to a denial of service attack)
All on the same day—a Friday no less.
Yes, it was planned.
You need to be computer literate to enjoy it.
Microsoft has been conspicuously absent from all of the BS. Perhaps try using the new Chromium-based Edge? Not saying MS won’t go stupid, but for now, they’re remaining out of the fray.
The point here is that Apple is demanding they violate the spirit of 230 compliance.
I don’t have an APP for FR. Somehow I found it.
Is there a FR APP?
Amazon employees call for company to cut ties with Parler after deadly U.S. Capitol riot
I think conservatives are going to need an entire conservative internet ecosystem from DNS providers on up before long. :-(
My solution: Nationalize GOOG, FB, TWTR, PYPL and make them part of the Post Office.
Also, establish Post Office banking. Since the financial institutions will expand their discrimination against conservatives as well.
Yeah, I know it’s socialism etc. But do conservatives face more discrimination / exclusion at the Post Office, or on Twitter ?
Also, taking away their companies will be a lesson to the rest of Silicon Valley not to politically abuse their power.
Or we could just go back to local communication, HAM radio, church. They can’t silence us until we’re dead. (And yes, I believe that’s part of the plan.)
“...the social network favored by conservatives and extremists...”
FU Buzzfeed S.O.Bs
Anybody know the frequency for Radio Free America?
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