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Apple to Parler: Crack Down on Free Speech or Face Ban

Apple is threatening to ban social media platform Parler from its app store till it cracks down on constitutionally safe speech that Apple would no longer approve of, a switch that can effectively exclude the app from all Apple smartphones.
Apple is threatening to ban social media platform Parler from its app store unless it cracks down on constitutionally protected speech that Apple doesn't approve of, a move that would effectively exclude the app from all Apple smartphones.

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  1. "Although their arguments are almost universally pathetic, it is useful to occasionally pay attention to what the Swamp's paid defenders of Big Tech giants are saying". (April 20, 2021)
  2. "The official account of the GOP Senate Majority reported that Facebook shut down Republican ads aimed at voters in the upcoming Georgia runoff, on the same day that it passed the National Defense Authorization Act without the repeal of Section 230 requested by President Donald Trump". (January 3, 2021)
  3. "Given Big Tech's flagrant interference in the 2020 election a steal, out in the open, in front of everyone it's tempting to welcome any regulatory or legal action that might punish them". (January 3, 2021)
  4. "Big Tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Google are waging a massive lobbying offensive in Washington DC to halt the passage of major antitrust legislation". (June 25, 2021)
  5. "Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) have introduced a bipartisan bill that would strip legal immunities from tech companies that censor users without their consent". (December 10, 2020)
  6. "Freedom of speech on the internet did not lead to a rise in "hate crimes," according to a report sent from the U.S. Department of Commerce to Congress in January a report that has yet to appear on any government website". (March 3, 2021)
  7. "Facebook has restricted the page of Tucker Carlson, the most popular cable news host in the country, smearing the Fox News host as sharing "false news". (September 26, 2020)
  8. "Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey finally issued a public comment on his platform's decision to censor what is arguably the top story in America today, theNew York Post'spublication of a cache of emails revealing hitherto unknown alleged links between Vice President Joe Biden and Burisma, a Ukrainian gas giant for which his son worked". (October 15, 2020)
  9. "Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) has introduced a bill that takes aim at a key vulnerability of Big Tech their increasing resemblance to common carriers". (April 30, 2021)
  10. "Facebook fact-checker "Lead Stories" took the social network's system of "fact-checking" to farcical levels earlier this week when it "fact-checked" a critique of itself by the Federalist's Molly Hemingway". (December 9, 2020)
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