{"id":1754000,"date":"2022-11-28T15:17:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754000"},"modified":"2022-11-28T15:58:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:58:15","slug":"elon-musk-wants-answers-about-apples-support-of-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-wants-answers-about-apples-support-of-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Wants Answers About Apple\u2019s Support Of Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-wants-answers-about-apples-support-of-censorship%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754000&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Apple suspended most of its advertising on Twitter, according to the blue bird app\u2019s new CEO Elon Musk on Monday. Now, Twitter\u2019s chief is asking questions about Apple\u2019s censorship practices to his more than 119 million followers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter,\u201d Must <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1597285572699074560?s=20&amp;t=SRYTGWIufEzFu0SkFbgNdA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cDo they hate free speech in America?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LBRY, a publisher that describes itself as the \u201cbitcoin\u201d of publishing, outlined the company\u2019s own experience with Apple censorship in a response to Musk\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring Covid, Apple demanded our apps filter some search terms from being returned,\u201d the company wrote back. \u201cIf we did not filter the terms, our apps would not be allowed in the store.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1597285572699074560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The response caught Musk\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho else has Apple censored?\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1597291218714906626?s=20&amp;t=L5A_tLoFoU-BN4ou0ArXkw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in a quote tweet to amplify the post.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apple has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won\u2019t tell us why<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1597300125243944961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1597300125243944961?s=20&amp;t=L5A_tLoFoU-BN4ou0ArXkw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> a few minutes later that Apple threatened to suspend Twitter from its app store, \u201cbut won\u2019t tell us why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Giving Twitter the boot over ambiguous standards would closely resemble the company\u2019s decision to strip Parler, a pre-Musk free speech alternative to Twitter, from the Apple app store last year. Days after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/10\/big-tech-oligarchs-collude-to-ban-parler-from-internet-and-phones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">colluded<\/a> with other tech conglomerates to take Parler offline. Apple and Google barred Parler from being downloaded on their devices while Amazon stripped the platform from its web hosting services.<\/p>\n<p>As nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/china-covid-protests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protests<\/a> broke out in China over the weekend threatening to undermine the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under President Xi Jinping, Quartz <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/apple-airdrop-china-protest-tool-1849824435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> that Apple plugged a crack in the regime\u2019s \u201cGreat Firewall\u201d that dissidents exploited to communicate. Apple\u2019s latest iOS update released in November placed new restrictions on \u201cAirDrop,\u201d a file-sharing feature on iPhones that allows users to share files directly from one phone to another (and consequently under the nose of government monitors). The update erased unlimited use for Chinese users only.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than listing new features, as it often does, the company simply said, \u2018This update includes bug fixes and security updates and is recommended for all users,&#8217;\u201d Quartz reported. \u201cHidden in the update was a change that only applies to iPhones sold in mainland China: AirDrop can only be set to receive messages from everyone for 10 minutes, before switching off. There\u2019s no longer a way to keep the \u2018everyone\u2019 setting on permanently on Chinese iPhones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s new update to benefit the CCP is neither a recent development nor an isolated incident.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/18\/report-apple-compromises-privacy-and-security-to-cater-to-communist-chinas-wishes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a>\u00a0to a report from The New York Times last year, Apple routinely compromises privacy and security practices to appease communist leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApple\u2019s compromises have made it nearly impossible for the company to stop the Chinese government from gaining access to the emails, photos, documents, contacts and locations of millions of Chinese residents, according to the security experts and Apple engineers,\u201d the Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/17\/technology\/apple-china-censorship-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, Apple remains one of the \u201cBig Four\u201d tech giants with a backdoor hand in censorship. Eliminating Parler from its app store over the company\u2019s refusal to capitulate to demands from Silicon Valley was one example. By picking an apparent fight with fellow tech giant Twitter, whose new CEO has pledged to restore some kind of an open forum on the internet, Apple is showing its censorship regime to be even more brazen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Twitter CEO Elon Musk revealed that Apple threatened to suspend Twitter from its app store, &#8216;but won&#8217;t tell us why.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1897984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Elon Musk Wants Answers About Apple\u2019s Support Of Censorship","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Elon Musk Wants Answers About Apple\u2019s Support Of Censorship","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}