(ETH) – Apple gave Parler a 24-hour ultimatum on Friday night to moderate their platform or their app would removed from their app store.
This comes as Apple claims that posts on the pro-Trump social network related to the U.S. Capitol riot last week included calls for violence, which violates Apple’s rules against objectionable content. It now appears that they have kept to their promise and removed it from the app store.
In a statement from Apple, it read: “We have always supported diverse points of view being represented on the App Store, but there is no place on our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity,” an Apple representative said in a statement. “Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people’s safety.
We have suspended Parler from the App Store until they resolve these issues.” This also follows the lead of Google that also removed Parler from its Android app store, Google Play, on Friday night. A group of Amazon corporate employees has also called on their company to stop providing cloud services to Parler as well following a tweet on Saturday,
by the employee advocacy group, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice said Amazon Web Services should “deny Parler services until it removes posts inciting violence, including at the Presidential inauguration.” AWS provides cloud services to Parler that host its website.
