You’ll forgive me if I decline to take moralising lessons on democratic freedoms from billionaires whose corporations run on Chinese slave labour.
At last year’s Academy Awards, Ricky Gervais reminded the audience that, while Apple made self-righteous TV shows “about the importance of dignity and doing the right thing”, it was “a company that runs sweatshops in China”. Among the squirming audience that night was Apple CEO Tim Cook.
But if you thought that Gervais’ barb might have caused Cook to feel even the slightest tinge of shame, think again.
Apple CEO Tim Cook defended removing Parler from his company’s App Store — saying he doesn’t see an “intersection” between the right to freedom of speech and the ability to provoke violence.
Apple and Google booted the conservative-leaning social media site’s app and Amazon –Web Services dropped Parler from its servers — following the violent riots at the US Capitol on Jan. 6 that led to the deaths of five people, including a cop.
Yet the FBI has concluded that the bad actors at the Capitol largely organised their nefarious activities on Twitter.
Cook said there are more than 2 million apps on the App Store and they all are expected to abide by the terms of service.
“We obviously don’t control what’s on the Internet, but we’ve never viewed that our platform should be a simple replication of the Internet. We have rules and regulations and we just ask that people abide by those,” Apple’s top exec said in the interview that aired Sunday.
So, why is Twitter, where “Hang Mike Pence” was a trending topic, still on the App Store? Twitter’s trending topic was so violently provocative that Instagram banned even screenshots of it.
We all know that the real game is a Big Tech cabal trying to crush an upstart rival.
After Twitter and a number of other Big Tech platforms banned President Trump over his comments following the chaos at the Capitol, many of his supporters flocked to Parler, which has less restrictions for content.
John Martze, the CEO of Parler[…]said he and his family have been in hiding because of death threats and constant harassment.
New York Post
Obviously not threats and harassment on the deplatformed Parler.
Who wants to bet that they’re all on apps happily hosted and promoted by Apple?
If these people didn’t have double-standards, they wouldn’t have any at all.
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