Parler, the social media network for people furious that Lola Bunny’s animated boobs is too small now, will not be returning to iOS anytime soon.
The social network, which caters to conservatives, Trump supporters and several others right crankshaft and large heads, himself as a censorship-free website it will only remove illegal posts and liberal trolls. It has predictably become a hive of death and rape threats against Democrats, racist diatribes and conspiracy theories for Trump. Parler then launched its Amazon web hosting and Apple’s and Google’s respective app stores in January, after numerous users of Parler were implicated as involved in pro-Trump riots on January 6 at the Capitol, where five people were killed.
Parler consequently had to be forced offline for weeks and returned late last month with promises of better moderation (the one to be extremely skeptical, given the majority investor of the site and Rebekah Mercer, GOP megadonor). took the opportunity to fire John Matze, CEO and replaced him by a Tea Party activist). In the midst of it all, Parler flat case on his face in a doomed antitrust lawsuit against Amazon that presents itself as the victim. It doesn & # 39; t seem to be doing much better in his quest to get back into the App Store, by Bloomberg, which reported on Wednesday that Apple had rejected Parler’s call to return to the App Store on February 25th.
According to Bloomberg, Apple staff wrote in a letter to Parler that they do not believe that the refurbishment of the app contains any significant moderation changes and that it is still considered a hateful, racist [and] discriminatory ”content:
“After reviewing the new information, we do not believe that these changes are sufficient to meet the guidelines for the App Store Review,” Apple wrote to Parler’s chief executive on February 25. ‘There’s no place for hateful, racist, discriminatory content across the App Store. ”
Apple has included several screenshots to support the rejection. Some screenshots, reviewed by Bloomberg, show user profile photos with hook boxes and other white nationalist images, and usernames and posts that are misogynistic, homophobic, and racist.
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Apple has opened up the possibility that Parler may return to the App Store in the future if it meets its guidelines but it made it pretty clear that Parler was nowhere near that.
“As you know, developers need to implement robust moderation features to proactively identify, prevent, and filter this offensive content to protect the health and safety of users,” Apple wrote in the letter, obtained by Bloomberg. ‘… In fact, simple searches reveal a lot of offensive content, including easily offensive use of derogatory terms regarding race, religion, and sexual orientation, as well as Nazi symbols. For these reasons, your app may not be returned to the App Store for distribution until it complies with the guidelines. ”
Parler glo fired (or canceled, one might shoutThe three iOS developers he still had on staff as well as four other employees on Wednesday, a source at Bloomberg said. This indicated that he had probably given up on ever getting on iOS again.
According to the Washington Post, Parler’s the new CEO, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, Mark Meckler, had earlier expressed confidence that Parler’s app would return to iOS. However, he also said that the company has no interest in appeasing the moderators to Google’s Play Store, as it is much easier to download apps on Android.