BuzzFeed:
Apple will continue to allow the Infowars Official mobile application in its App Store, the company confirmed to BuzzFeed News on Wednesday, just days after banning several podcasts associated with the conspiracy site.
On Sunday, as first reported by BuzzFeed News, Apple took down the entire library of five of the six Infowars podcasts from its iTunes and Podcasts apps. The action was decisive, with Apple laying out a clear reason for removal: The podcast content violated the company’s hate speech guidelines.
Less clear, though, is why Apple has chosen to keep the Infowars app up — which allows users to livestream in high definition the very same programs that it deemed hateful in podcast form. In its response to questions from BuzzFeed News, the iPhone maker suggested that the Infowars Official app had not violated the company’s guidelines.
Apple is caught between a rock and a hard place on this but it’s a situation of their own making.
I guess Apple’s rationalization is that the app is like a television, it doesn’t contain content, it’s just a conduit for content and to take down that app would mean taking down any other app that could be a conduit for questionable content. The slippery slope argument.
I’m not sure I agree but they do have a point.
Does Apple no longer set restrictions on the conveyed content of apps as well?
Apple is inconsistent with their policy. The old Apple would’ve removed the app also.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9821311/Apple-bans-photography-app-500px-over-porn-images.html
Apple has refused far better apps with far less reason.
This isn’t a question of rules but of values. Apple has failed.
Does this mean it will be force downloaded to you?