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Tim Cook: Why I Kicked Parler Off Apple's App Store

Tuesday January 19, 2021. 02:30 AM , from Slashdot
Charlotte Web shares a report from CNN: Apple, along with Amazon and Google, effectively kicked Parler off the internet in the wake of the January 6 US Capitol siege. Despite criticism that Big Tech wields too much power over speech, Apple CEO Tim Cook defended his decision. 'We looked at the incitement to violence that was on there,' Apple CEO Tim Cook said on Sunday. 'We don't consider that free speech and incitement to violence has an intersection...'

Cook disputed that it's Apple's job to host every service, regardless of its content. He noted that Apple has terms of service for the 2 million apps its hosts, and apps that refuse to play by the rules aren't allowed to access Apple's massive audience. 'We obviously don't control what's on the internet, but we've never viewed that our platform should be a simple replication of what's on the internet,' Cook said.Apple will welcome back Parler -- provided Parler finds a new cloud provider to host the social network -- if the app effectively moderates users' speech, said the Apple CEO. 'We've only suspended them,' Cook noted. 'If they get their moderation together they would be back on there.' With regard to the Capitol siege, Cook said: 'It was one of the saddest moments of my life -- seeing an attack on our Capitol and an attack on our democracy. I felt like I was in some sort of alternate reality, to be honest with you. This could not be happening.'

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