Left-Wing Group Demands Apple Preemptively Nuke Truth Social

Quote:A left-wing government watchdog group with a dubious history is demanding Apple engage in mass preemptive censorship with the removal of a free-speech-branded alternative to Twitter from its app store.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a four-page letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday urging the American tech executive to nuke former President Donald Trump’s new platform, Truth Social, from its digital marketplace despite no violations of company guidelines.

“The events of January 6, 2021 highlighted not only democracy’s vulnerabilities, but also the risks associated with the current ecosystem of online speech,” wrote CREW President Noah Bookbinder in the letter. “Every company that now enters into business with Trump must recognize that it is essentially endorsing this dangerous and anti-democratic conduct.”

With not a single post from the entire platform cited or a single company policy violated to justify the app’s removal, Bookbinder argued Truth Social’s association with Trump was enough reason alone to ban the product from the Apple marketplace.

“Unchecked threats to reliable information imperil our civic institutions, social stability, and democratic norms,” Bookbinder wrote, implying that inadequate censorship of dissident ideas is a threat to democracy.

Bookbinder even highlighted the corporate collusion to take down Parler, another free-speech alternative to Twitter, in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riot to rationalize a preemptive strike at Truth Social.

“Fortunately, there is a strong precedent for taking action in response to security threats,” Bookbinder explained. Within four days of the turmoil on Capitol Hill, which was exploited by Democrats after years of justifying left-wing destruction in the name of social justice, Apple joined Californian tech oligarchs at Google to strip Parler from its app store. Amazon yanked the platform from its web hosting service, rendering it offline. Each company justified the large-scale censorship by indicting Parler as a haven for extremist content inciting violence, despite Twitter and Facebook each fostering the same activity in the run-up to the Capitol unrest. Bookbinder made no mention of the identical conduct of Facebook and Twitter, each allies in the censorship regime, while arguing Truth Social’s presence in the App Store posed “significant reputational risks” to Apple.

“CREW respectfully requests that you take action to distance your company from those who undermine democracy,” Bookbinder wrote.

The letter is among the latest examples of left-wing actors embracing opposition censorship as a means to silence political dissidents and win elections.

Earlier this month, proponents of censorship paradoxically cloaking free speech criticism in defense of democracy suffered an online meltdown over billionaire Elon Musk’s effort to purchase Twitter. With a $43 billion dollar offer, 20 percent above market value, Musk has pledged to reform the platform’s culture as one committed to free speech while it serves as “a de facto town square.”

Couldn't the same argument be had for Facebook and Twitter since they censored a story that could've had ramifications on the 2020 election, that while they maintain free speech they were actually working for a political party?

That would have been a clever name, surprised he passed on the idea of having his name directly in there...unless he expected it to go as poorly as it has -

Quote of the Day
April 26, 2022 at 12:56 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments

“I hope he calls it ‘Trumpet’ and then we can send out ‘notes’ to each other!”

— Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA), quoted by CNN, texting former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in January 2020 about his hope the former president would create a competitor to Twitter.

https://politicalwire.com/2022/04/26/quo...-day-3189/

Was about 1.5 million in line a week ago. Went there today and I’m in. Looks fine to me.

When the election cycle comes around and Trump is only on Truth their numbers will soar. Even the little liberals want to see the mean tweets. They just don’t want YOU to see them.

womp womp

If being the #1 download is the metric for 'disaster' then I suppose a lot of other aspiring apps would gladly sign up for disaster.

(04-26-2022 05:54 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  If being the #1 download is the metric for 'disaster' then I suppose a lot of other aspiring apps would gladly sign up for disaster.

This thread is simply another idiotic faux gotcha moment.

(04-26-2022 05:54 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  If being the #1 download is the metric for 'disaster' then I suppose a lot of other aspiring apps would gladly sign up for disaster.

Liberals don't like winning anything but elections.