Joining the growing list of corporations that have decided to stand against WikiLeaks, Apple has announced that it has banned a third-party iPhone/iPad WikiLeaks app from iTunes. Created by Russian developer Igor Barinov, the app allowed access to both the WikiLeaks documents available on the official website, as well as the WikiLeaks Twitter feed. It had been downloaded over 4,000 times before Apple removed it.
After removing the app, Barinov was contacted by Apple, who told him that his program violated two of its developers guidelines. The first was based on Apple’s stance on personal attacks, and read “any app that is defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited, or likely to place the targeted individual or group in harms way will be rejected.”
The second violation regarded the legality of the WikiLeaks documents, something that legal experts will likely be debating for years to come. But whatever the courts decide regarding the status of the WikiLeaks documents, Apple seems to be playing it safe and assuming that the documents are illegal.
“Apps must comply with all legal requirements in any location where they are made available to users”.
Corporations big and small are ultimately responsible to their owners. Owners hate having the expensive eye of government focused on them. The Feds have a tremendous amount of power over a company BECAUSE A COMPANY IS CHARTERED BY GOVERNMENT.
So your boycott of Apple or Amazon or any other company will be pointless.
Haha. Basically people would try to boycott Amazon, but they need to buy movies/CDs from there. And then they can’t boycott Apple because they need to listen to their movies/CDs on their iPods.
I’ve been boycotting Apple because of their prices. $999 for a MacBook Air?
I’ve been boycotting Apple because they screwed me out of a warranty on one of thier overpriced laptops. I’d rather have actual practical quality and flexibilty instead of a smug sense of trendiness.
