Speak, the social networking site for people furious than Lola Bunny animated breasts they are now too small, I won’t be back to iOS soon.
The social network, which caters to conservatives, Trump supporters and others handles and right-wing fans, was marked as censorship free site this would only eliminate illegal publications and liberal trolls. It became, predictably, a hive death and rape threats against Democrats, racist diatribes, and pro-Trump conspiracy theories. Parler was subsequently ripped from its Amazon web hosting and the respective Apple and Google app stores in January after numerous Parler users were implicated in pro-Trump riots involving the Capitol on January 6, where five people died.
As a result, Parler was forced to be offline for weeks and returned late last month with promises of better moderation (of which we would be extremely skeptical, given the site’s majority investor and megadonor GOP Rebekah Mercer I took the opportunity switch on CEO John Matze and replace him with a Tea Party activist). In the midst of all this, Parler fell flat to the face in a conviction antitrust lawsuit against Amazon that depicts itself as a victim. It doesn’t look much better in its intention to return to the App Store, by Bloomberg, which reported Wednesday that Apple rejected Parler’s appeal to return to the App Store on February 25th.
According to Bloomberg, Apple staff wrote in a letter to Parler that they did not believe the app renewal contained significant moderation changes and still considered it invaded by “hateful, racist, [and] discriminatory content ”:
“After reviewing the new information, we don’t believe these changes are sufficient to comply with the App Store review guidelines,” Apple wrote to Parler’s policy director on Feb. 25. “There is no place for hateful, racist and discriminatory content in App Store.”
Apple included several screenshots to support the rejection. Some screenshots, reviewed by Bloomberg, show user profile images with swastikas and other white nationalist images, and misogynistic, homophobic, and racist usernames and posts.
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Apple left open the possibility that Parler could return to the App Store in the future if it meets its guidelines but he made it quite clear that Parler was not close to doing so.
“As you know, developers need to implement robust moderation capabilities to proactively identify, prevent, and filter out this nasty content to protect the health and safety of users,” Apple wrote in the letter obtained by Bloomberg. “… In fact, simple searches reveal highly unpleasant content, including easily identifiable offensive uses of derogatory terms regarding race, religion, and sexual orientation, as well as Nazi symbols. For these reasons, your app cannot be returned to the App Store for distribution until it meets the guidelines. “
Talk as you please fired (or canceled, one could sometimes) The three iOS developers he still had on staff, as well as four other employees on Wednesday, a source told Bloomberg, indicating that he has probably given up using iOS again.
According to the Washington Post, Speaking new CEO, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, Mark Meckler, had previously expressed confidence that the Parler app would return to iOS. However, he also said that the company had no interest in appeasing moderators in the Google Play Store, as it is much easier to download apps on Android.