Apple CEO Tim Cook defended Parler’s removal from his company’s App Store, saying he doesn’t see an “intersection” between the right to free speech and the ability to provoke violence. .
Apple and Google launched conservative social media and Amazon – Web Services stopped talking about its servers – after the violent riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 that killed five people, including a police
“We looked at the incitement to violence. And we don’t consider freedom of speech and incitement to violence to have an intersection, ”Cook told host Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.
Cook said there are more than 2 million apps in the App Store and they are all expected to meet the terms of service.
“Obviously we do not control what is on the Internet, but we have never seen that our platform should be a simple replication of the Internet. We have rules and regulations and we just ask people to abide by them, ”Apple’s chief executive said in an interview on Sunday.
Wallace asked him if removing Apple Talk would lead users more underground, Cook said it shouldn’t be like that.
“It simply came to our notice then. And so if they gather their moderation, they would come back, ”he said.
After Twitter and several other Big Tech platforms banned President Trump for his comments after the chaos at the Capitol, many of his followers turned to Parler, which has fewer content restrictions.
John Martze, Parler’s CEO, has sued Amazon for alleging violations of the U.S. antitrust law for removing the social media company from its servers.
He said he and his family have been hiding due to death threats and constant harassment.