iPodNN reports, “Apple has drawn fire for blocking or removing political apps in the past, such as a Republican candidate’s campaign app, or even a title which simply featured editorial cartoons.”
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Local laws? What local laws?
Ugh. They pick this app to make a statement about?
Good call by Apple. And the snitch should get jailed on Treason.
don’t you have to be a citizen to be charged with treason?
This wikileaks saga is awesome.
Apple The Latest To Convict Wikileaks Despite No Charges Or Trial; Kills Wikileaks App For Violating Unnamed Laws
As an avid Apple supporter, this is extremely depressing. Think different? Not so much anymore.
The people who are “harmed” by Wikileaks are NOT the soldiers on the ground.
“Your dissident is my law breaker.”
I wonder what Liu would say to all this.
“It may not put an individual or target group in harms way.'” Oh, certainly! And the post 9-11 Gop-party never did such things? Still you’re selling Mac$$$ and Ap$$$ to them, aren’t you?
FY Apple!
Sorry MacRaven. He’s an Australian and is not guilty of breaking any laws in Australia according to the recent press here.
In the US they’re trying to find a law that he’s broken. None so far. They’re still looking. If they can’t find one they’ll invent one and predate it. It’s been done fairly recently.
The US is NOT the lawmaker for the entire planet. When are you going to get that into your head? The rest of the world is a little tired of US might and balderdash. I suggest a tour outside your nation to getter take on the world view of the US. Trust me it could be better..
So far personal information has been heavily redacted. No actual individual has come into harms way unless maybe they’re doing something that perhaps they shouldn’t.
He’s certainly made a lot of government people from many nations look foolish.
It’s shone a light on how appallingly governments have behaved especially the US government but also the Australian government. these people are accountable to us.. common citizens..
I’m not surprised at Apple removing the app just a little disapointed.
Where would Bernstein and Woodward have been on Watergate? Surely the undermining of Nixon might be construed as treason.
Just a thought.
Apple made the right call here. They don’t want to be called out for assisting in disseminating stolen government documents. As in the case of porn, those who want to see this stuff can use the web.
Apropos, I find Assange’s outrage over the leaking of the Swedish police reports to be deliciously ironic.
No rapist lefty lib shitapps, period.
@MacRaven
By law only citizens of the US are allowed to be tried for treason, so civics fail on your part.
Secondly, who do you think the government is more afraid of reading the info in the leaks? The (A)’terrorists’ or the (B) American public. If you guess answer B, the American public, give yourself a prize.
Max, you lefty rapist lapdog is pure Australian trash
Pulling the wikileaks app stinks. So disappointing to see Apple joining with banksters and corrupt politicians who don’t like light being shone on their activities. A classic example are exposure of collateral murders and despotic governments in Africa.
Thank you Apple, for doing the right thing.
“Apropos, I find Assange’s outrage over the leaking of the Swedish police reports to be deliciously ironic.”
Amazing they didn’t present any evidence at the hearings that had him in solitary for 9 days. Now the leak it. I might be annoyed..
Hey if he’s guilty of a sex crime (i’m amazed they didn’t involve children and goats) then he should face the consequences. I hear people calling for his execution for a lot of egg on politicians faces. Hmmm..
“Max, you lefty rapist lapdog is pure Australian trash”
Eloquent in the extreme. Well argued. Well thought out. Obviously a student of law, history and I dare say many other things included.
Your grammar could be improved.
Note I didn’t call anyone names just presented a point of view, which I believe the freedoms my nation and your nation allow us to do.
So score zip for trash talk.
Good move Apple.
You don’t need to invite a lawsuit.
There are PLENTY of Wikileak sources already.
If that is the case Apple, I assume you will likewise remove all mainstream media apps which might, through their reporting (or repreporting of things like the WikiLeaks) put people or groups “at risk”. Going further with Apples tortures logic, they must also remove access to the Internet from al their devices.
Think different… not any more apparently.
P.S. I’m an Australian citizen also and support what Max said and support the good work of WikiLeaks of shining the light on corrupt government activities.
So I guess Apple will remove the NYTimes app as the paper has reported the cables?
I’m disappointed in Apple for this. It’s a weak excuse, as even the Pentagon has admitted no one’s life has been endangered. And that’a a pretty rich excuse anyway, considering all the people we Americans have killed of our own and not in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Assange has not been charged (AFAIK) with any crime, much less been convicted in a court of law, and yet the assets of his organization frozen in Switzerland, donation avenues extinguished (MasterCard, VISA, Paypal), domains removed (Amazon), and now this. Imagine what would happen if he’d committed a real crime, like lying us into a war, wasting many billions of dollars on said war, responsible for the death of untold thousands what the consequences would be? The answer: if you’re high up enough, nothing at all.
Justice, it’s only for the non-hoi-polloi. Lovely how many people are cheerleading exactly for that.
no business wants controversy…”agenda” groups in our “everyone’s opinion counts equally” age – whether on the right or left side of the political equation, live for controversy
@X
you are an a-hole, you should be happy of living in a country that when the government lies diplomatically, the truth finally comes out
It’s B.S. that it puts our troops in harms way!!!! bull shit
It is amazing so many US citizens are so willing to give up their freedoms. shameful shit.