Apple should also remove WhatsApp and iMessages since they can be used by undesirable groups to coordinate their efforts.
Plus, definitely Jitsi, and Gmail too. All these apps are dangerous!<p>Actually, just removing the keyboard and microphone would be safest, it keeps any terrorist from inputting any dangerous message at all.
Here we go. Now that app stores and services have voluntarily collaborated in restricting speech, we can see more pressure campaigns to curb speech. First it’s violence, next it’s favorite targets then it’s non proscribed speech.<p>Stop going down this slope while you still can push back. If you give in, everyone who has an axe to grind will come with theirs.
The article ends with this quote from the head of the group doing the suit:<p>>"Our research revealed serious instances whereby TELEGRAM’s end-to-end encryption service was enabling."<p>... which is an odd point when the complaint is about moderation. This could be yet another thinly disguised attack on encryption.
Hypothetical question.<p>It was only the other day I thought about the same problem. What if these group, or whatever it is Apple deemed unacceptable were using;<p>Email - Doing good old fashion email reading and writing it with Gmail.<p>RSS - spreading their thoughts via Feeds and read using Feedly or any other RSS Reader.<p>Phone Call - These people are actually communicating using Call Conference.<p>Will Apple forced Google to Moderate those Emails? Feedly to filter RSS? All ISP and Carriers to do similar?<p>I mean it is great we have many web forums, Apple themselves actively filter and purge all mention of Keyboard, Display issues, Stain gate threads on their user support forums. Normally they get spread out via other forum into Main stream media before Apple stops censoring it.
I hope the court understands it's not about Telegram or any other tool used for communication, but the problems happening in "the land of the free".
I'm actually in favor of this.<p>Not because I agree with Apple/Google/Amazon etc acting as speech restricting overlords, but because I think it has to get a lot worse before people realize the dangers of what's happening and demand changes that will put such matters out of corporations' hands.