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Apple CEO Tim Cook hopes that the right-wing social media network Parler, which was forced offline after the uprising in the US Capitol, will return to the company’s app store.
Cook said Monday during the New York Times “Sway” podcast that he hopes the company will “come back” after posting the “moderation needed to be in the store.”
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“I think there are more social networks out there than having less,” Cook said.
Earlier this year, the app was suspended from Apple and Google’s app stores and launched Amazon’s web hosting service because it was related to the siege in the US Capitol in January.
Google first chased Parler’s smartphone app out of its app store because it allowed postings to incite ongoing violence in the US. A day later, Apple followed suit after Parler gave a day to address charges of ‘illegally planning and dangerous activities’. ”
We work hard to get people into the store, not to keep people away from the store, ‘COOK said on’ SWAY ‘.
Apple’s unprecedented move was due to the inability of the app to ‘take adequate measures to address the spread of violence and illegal activities’.
“We have always supported different views in the App Store, but there is no place on our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity,” an Apple spokesman said in a statement to FOX Business in January. “Parler has not taken sufficient measures to address the spread of these threats to human safety. We have suspended Parler from the App Store until they resolve these issues.”
The App Reviews Board at the time sent a letter to Parler’s executives explaining that their app “will be removed from the App Store until we receive an update that meets the App Store review guidelines and you have demonstrated that you are able to effectively moderate and filter the dangerous and harmful content on your service. “
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According to reports, Cook had earlier noted that the app would be allowed as long as it complied with Apple’s terms of service.
“We work hard to get people into the store, not to keep people away from the store,” Cook said on the Times podcast.
In February, Parler announced that he would start again and not rely on ‘Big Tech’.
According to the guidelines available on the site on February 14, Parler will use technology and human review to remove “threatening or provocative content”. They said a “community jury” led by an employee of Parler would hear appeals.
FOX Business, Audrey Conklin and Associated Press contributed to this report.