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Apple Finally Lets Parler Return to App Store Following Republican Letter

Calvin Freiburger : Apr 22, 2021
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"Parler has, and will always be, a free and open forum where users could engage in the free exchange of ideas in the full spirit of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution..." -Parler interim CEO Mark Meckler

[LifeSiteNews.com] Alternative social network Parler will be allowed to return to Apple's App Store, months after being blacklisted for content moderation policies Apple claims it found inadequate. (Image: Unsplash-Laurenz Heymann)

Apple, Google, and Amazon blacklisted Parler in January, with Amazon forcing the entire site to go down until it managed to arrange an alternative web-hosting solution to replace Amazon Web Services. The moves were based on the internet companies' claims that Parler took insufficient action to remove user comments that supposedly contributed to the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill.

The website returned with updated community guidelines Parler said were "designed to enable productive, polite discourse among people with differing interests, life experiences, and viewpoints," but Apple said in March they didn't go far enough.

On Monday, however, Apple announced that Parler will be returning to the App Store next week, in response to a letter on the subject by Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Ken Buck of Colorado, which said the companies' actions "seem to lack any of the procedural fairness typically afforded in the case of an alleged breach of contract create the appearance of close coordination"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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