{"id":214849,"date":"2021-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parler-pushes-back-after-apple-blocks-social-media-site-from-app-store\/"},"modified":"2021-03-12T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T14:26:38","slug":"parler-pushes-back-after-apple-blocks-social-media-site-from-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parler-pushes-back-after-apple-blocks-social-media-site-from-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Parler Pushes Back After Apple Blocks Social Media Site From App Store"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fparler-pushes-back-after-apple-blocks-social-media-site-from-app-store%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=214849&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 has reportedly blocked Parler from returning to its App Store, which would have allowed new users to download the microblogging\u00a0app on iPhones \u2014 and now the social media platform is fighting back.<\/p>\n<p>In a Feb. 25 decision, Apple told Parler that &#8221;after having reviewed the new information, we do not believe these changes are sufficient to comply with App Store Review guidelines,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-03-10\/parler-cuts-ios-team-after-apple-blocks-return-to-app-store\">Bloomberg<\/a>\u00a0reported. &#8221;There is no place for hateful, racist, discriminatory content on the App Store.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apple had joined Google in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/parler-iphone-google-removed\/2021\/01\/09\/id\/1004914\">booting<\/a> Parler from its App Store in January after the Capitol Hill siege, effectively excluding the app from all Apple smartphones. Amazon made a similar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/us\/amazon-parler\/2021\/01\/09\/id\/1004920\">move<\/a>, removing Parler from its web hosting services, knocking Parler offline until it was able to find another host.<\/p>\n<p>Parler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsfront\/parler-matze-website-social-media\/2021\/01\/17\/id\/1006005\">returned<\/a> to live online service last month.<\/p>\n<p>But Apple has turned down Parler&#8217;s request to return to the App Store, Bloomberg reported, citing the letter the news agency said it had obtained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;As you know, developers are required to implement robust moderation capabilities to proactively identify, prevent and filter this objectionable content to protect the health and safety of users,&#8221; continued Apple in its letter to Parler, which was obtained by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant alleged content including &#8221;easily identified offensive uses of derogatory terms regarding race, religion and sexual orientation, as well as Nazi symbols&#8221; could still be found on Parler.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;For these reasons your app cannot be returned to the App Store for distribution until it complies with the guidelines,&#8221; Apple said.<\/p>\n<p>Now Parler has responded with its own statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/03\/11\/apple-blocks-parler-from-returning-to-app-store\/\">Breitbart<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 insisting it&#8217;d been working toward returning to the App Store &#8221;in reliance on [Apple CEO] Tim Cook&#8217;s\u00a0statements that Apple&#8217;s problem was not with our mission, but only with the perceived lack of enforcement of our guidelines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Parler has always\u00a0opposed and worked to remove violent and inciting rhetoric from our platform, because it inhibits productive, civil discourse,&#8221; Parler&#8217;s statement to Breitbart said, adding:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Accordingly, and even though we knew that problems with violent and inciting content were not unique to Parler in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6 \u2014 a fact that independent reviews of court records have now shown \u2014 we worked tirelessly to adopt enhanced protocols for identifying and removing this type of content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Breitbart, the social media platform insists it&#8217;s shown Apple &#8221;how we&#8217;ve incorporated a combination of algorithmic filters and human review to detect and remove content that threatens or incites violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We&#8217;ve also explained our new feature which empowers individual users with the option to filter out personal attacks based on immutable and irrelevant characteristics such as race, sex, sexual orientation, or religion,&#8221; Parler said, Breitbart reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We&#8217;re\u00a0optimistic that Apple will continue to differentiate itself from other &#8216;Big Tech&#8217; companies by supporting its customers&#8217; choice to &#8216;think different&#8217; \u2014 to exercise their constitutionally protected freedoms of thought, speech, and association \u2014 while using Apple products,&#8221; the statement said, Breitbart reported.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has reportedly blocked Parler from returning to its App Store, which would have allowed new users to download the microblogging\u00a0app on iPhones \u2014 and now the social media platform is fighting back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214849","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}