OK let's get a few things straight here For those who are calling out Apple for hypocrisy. Get over it. It's their store and they can reject your app if they don't like the length of your hair. Don't like it FU. For those that are playing the 'whattabout' card. Get over it. It's their store and they can play favourites if they want. Don't like it, FU. I am always amazed how many people hold up private property as an absolute right until they see the no trespassing sign. Then they want some higher standard used to force the issue. But don't dare try to use the same rational on something they own or like. THAT is hypocrisy. It's Apple's store. If you don't like how they run it, get an Android and use their store. If enough people agree Apple will change. But if they don't, that's tough there isn't a thing you can do about it. Do I like everything about how Apple runs their store? No, they do some things that really p*ss me off. But it's not my store so there isn't a bloody thing I can do about it. That's the way it is. I don't lose sleep over it, I don't get angry about it. I suggest you do the same.
I would suggest that you maybe you should lose some sleep over it. We, as a nation are in conundrum:
Domestic and foreign actors have been hiding behind our free speech laws using them against us by using skilled and professionally produced propaganda to gather and radicalize followers and undermine our democracy in favor of their ideology and agenda. It is an attack on our nation.
No, foreigners haven't been hiding behind any LAWS, they have been hiding behind the CONSTITUTION. It is the US First Amendment that gives foreigners free speech RIGHTS inside the US.
Since 1886, the US Supreme Court has recognized that the Equal Protection Clause is "universal in [its] application, to all persons within the territorial jurisdiction, without regard to differences of ... nationality." Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356, 369 (1886).
If you want to remove free speech rights from foreigners, you have to amend the US Constitution. I'd be happy to hear your proposal if you draft up a new amendment. Alternatively, you could appoint a bunch of liberal justices who use their feelings about what the Constitution should mean instead of what it meant to its authors.
That's the typical nonsense excuse used by right wing insurrectionists to justify their insurrection and attempted murder.
Sane people know it ludicrous.
There is no completely free speech guaranteed by anything anywhere. Never has been and never will be.
I would love to hear you defend a black man's right to threaten to blow up the Georgia capital and kill its law makers because they are trying to take away his right to vote.
Please move on.
I cited a US Supreme Court ruling by name to make my case. You cited nothing. You also changed the subject from foreigners to non-foreigners. When you can't win an argument, you change the subject.
LOL.... Hardly...
Neither do I cherry pick irrelevant "Facts" to prove a point.
Shame on you Apple! I’ve been a Mac user since 1985 and wouldn’t use anything else. That said, the leftist proselytizing needs to END! Parler has every right to exist and compete. Lord knows, FB Et al. desperately needs competition, otherwise social media is simply an echo-chamber of tired ideas and no original thought!
Shame on you Apple! I’ve been a Mac user since 1985 and wouldn’t use anything else. That said, the leftist proselytizing needs to END! Parler has every right to exist and compete. Lord knows, FB Et al. desperately needs competition, otherwise social media is simply an echo-chamber of tired ideas and no original thought!
Apple probably agrees with your basic sentiment; they just disagree that enabling insurrectionist Nazis to use their platform helps make that point.
Let them use their own website, as long as they can find somebody willing to host it.
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desperately needs competition, otherwise social media is simply an echo-chamber of tired ideas and no original thought!