Apple Will Have to Answer About Viewpoint Censoring
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Are Apple’s policies hostile to free speech, conservatives, and religious viewpoints? Thanks to the SEC, the company’s shareholders will finally be able to vote on and discuss these issues.
From WORLD. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is backing shareholders who are protesting anti-religious and anti-conservative bias in Apple’s app store.
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The American Family Association (AFA) submitted a resolution for Apple shareholders to vote on at their 2024 annual meeting in the spring. The resolution calls for more accountability and transparency from Apple, said Jeremy Tedesco, senior counsel and senior vice president of corporate engagement at Alliance Defending Freedom. According to Tedesco, Apple attempted to bar AFA’s resolution from the ballot, but last week’s SEC ruling ensures a vote will occur.
“If Apple is committed to free speech, and if they are the gatekeepers to what has essentially become today’s public square, we need them to have policies in place that protect the free flow of information,” Tedesco said. “That’s not what they have. … They have policies in place that allow for rampant viewpoint discrimination.”
Apple’s terms of service say that the tech company “will reject apps for any content or behavior that we believe is over the line. What line, you ask? Well, as a Supreme Court justice once said, ‘I’ll know it when it see it.’ And we think that you will also know it when you cross it.” …
“That’s actually their policy language. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s probably the most inconsistent with free speech from a policy perspective [that] I’ve seen from a social media and tech company,” Tedesco said. …
The App Store guidelines provide a breakdown of types of objectionable content. But some phrases, like “inflammatory religious commentary” or “harmful concepts which capitalize or seek to profit on recent or current events,” leave considerable room for interpretation. …
In 2010, Apple removed the Manhattan Declaration app, which promoted traditional marriage and pro-life views, for “being offensive to large groups of people.” Then in 2019, Apple banned a pro-life news organization, LifeSite News, for displaying “intolerance towards a specific group.”
Additionally, Apple removed popular Bible and Quran apps from its Chinese app store at the request of country officials in 2021. …
Big tech has controlled what can and can’t be said for far too long now. Share your prayers for free speech in the comments below.
(Excerpt from WORLD. Photo Credit: Trac Vu on Unsplash)
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Because of the woman that is running Apple is so anti-God, that business is suffering. The stock in that company has plummeted. She needs the Lord.
Father God, we pray for Your Holy Spirit to direct the leaders of Apple to allow free speech in their apps and their social media. Change their hearts, Lord, and open their hearts to Your message. In Jesus’ holy Name, we pray.
Father in the name of Jesus, force apple to uphold freedom of speech, if their fear is anti religious retailation, they can protect themselves legally by providing a statement that says they might not agree with some content or opinions stated in the app but they respect and uphold our constitution with with freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to express conservative views that might not align with everyone and coukd possibly be considered offensive to some.
Heavenly Father, I thank You and praise You for Your mercy and mighty hand that moves across our nation to take down corruption and perversion in the corporate boardrooms, I pray in agreement with IFA and that the prayers of the intercessors go forth and accomplishes what You please. Your Word says in Isaiah 55:11, It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
We give you all the glory and invite an abundance of your glory to come to earth as it is in Heaven! Amen!
This statement wraps it up for me:
“BIG TECH has controlled what can and cannot be said for far too long now.”
Heavenly Father, our Allmighty God, I pray that You will take action to preserve Truth, Honour and Family Values within and throughout the American Justice System, that to this day still claims to operate within the bounds of Your Holy Mercy, to eradicate all Lies and Untruths that seek to distort and pervert that which we hold Holy in Your Name, and without which our once great nation will once again become a pagan desert of no value or consequence to humanity or Your Holy Name.
Amen.