Advocating for the removal of the controversial Parler app from his online store by his company, Apple CEO Tim Cook told Fox journalist Chris Wallace that he does not believe that freedom of speech and the alleged provocation of violence intersect.
Apple, Google and Amazon Services took the Parler app offline after the United States Capitol protests on January 6. Five people died in the clashes.
“We saw the incitement to the violence that was there (Parler). And we don’t think freedom of speech and incitement to violence intersect, ”Cook told presenter Chris Wallace on Fox News on Sunday.
Cook said that all App Store services must comply with the terms of service.
“Obviously, we don’t control what’s on the Internet. But we have never seen that our platform should be a simple replication of the internet. We have rules and regulations and we just ask people to follow them ”.
Asked if he was creating incentives to go deeper into the underground, Cook said he would allow the service to return with greater moderation.
“We just suspended them for us. And then, if they managed to moderate it, they would go back there, ”he said.
John Martze, Parler’s CEO, also spoke with Fox today, and said he received a 24-hour notice about the removal of his service and suggested collusion.
“It is very, very interesting that all of them, exactly on the same day without previously indicating, they never indicated to us that there was any serious or material problem with our application,” said CEO Matze to Fox journalist Mark Levin “But on the same day , you know, all on the same day, they send us these very threatening warnings. “
“And Amazon, as always, [was] basically saying, ‘Oh, I never saw any material problems. There are no problems. ‘You know, they played with a lot of indifference. And then we still had, you know, on the 8th and 9th, you know, we had no real indication that it was, you know, deadly serious. “