{"id":182409,"date":"2015-09-29T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/29\/iphone-users-just-love-their-walled-garden\/"},"modified":"2015-09-29T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T00:46:00","slug":"iphone-users-just-love-their-walled-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/09\/29\/iphone-users-just-love-their-walled-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Users Just Love Their Walled Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/qZnLX7E.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/qZnLX7E.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>Even if it means that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/technology\/app-store-drone-strike-metadata\/\">Apple is censoring what news they can read<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Metadata+, a free app that catalogues fatal drone strikes by the United States, was pulled from the App Store this morning. Users were alerted via a notification that said the app was removed because of &#8220;exceptionally crude or objectionable content.&#8221; <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Metadata+ was developed by The Intercept&#8217;s research editor Josh Begley. The app listed the date and location of drone strikes, as well as the victims, and sent notifications to users when a new strike occurred. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Begley struggled to get the App Store to accept his work\u2014Mashable reports that Metadata+ was approved this February after five rejections. The sensitive topic of U.S. drone strikes seems to have been a problem for Apple: Begley was rejected last August because his app might be &#8220;objectionable&#8221; for many audiences. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Begley told Mashable that an Apple Review Team employee contacted him after several rejections and told him that if the app focused specifically on U.S. drone strikes, &#8220;it&#8217;s not going to be approved.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, it appears that not cheerleading for US drone strikes is unacceptable content for Apple, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when the FBI comes and asks for a backdoor into your private communications?<\/p>\n<p>At least Android is open source, so if there is a backdoor, someone can compile a version without some back door that has elements of the US state security apparatus leering looking at your private communications.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder Apple is lobbying so hard for a bill in congress that grants them immunity for sharing data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if it means that Apple is censoring what news they can read: Metadata+, a free app that catalogues fatal drone strikes by the United States, was pulled from the App Store this morning. Users were alerted via a notification that said the app was removed because of &#8220;exceptionally crude or objectionable content.&#8221; Metadata+ was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1060,970,969],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computer","category-corruption","category-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}