Tim Cook Denies Apple Collusion With Other Tech Companies To Ban Infowars

The removal of Infowars from iTunes and App Store over violation of Apple tree's hate speech rules triggered a range of comments with Alex Jones the man behind Infowars, speculating that tech companies colluded to expel him from multiple platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. Apple CEO Tim Melt has now shed some light on the reason why the conspiracy theorist'south content was purged from the Apple ecosystem.

In a recent interview with VICE, Cook revealed that removing Infowars podcasts from iTunes and the ban on the app was just function of Apple's content curation policy. He also clarified that he didn't coordinate with executives from other tech companies in evicting Jones or Infowars.

What users want from us and what we've always provided them is a curated platform. We think that what the user wants is someone that does review these apps, someone that does review the podcasts, someone that on similar Apple news, where a human being is selecting the superlative stories. And that'due south what we do.

When asked specifically near the banning of Infowars, the Apple chief pointed that he doesn't want to explain the visitor's content policy in view of a single effect. "But I think there's enough there that reasonable people could hold that if you're going to curate, that that should be off", Melt vaguely explained.

Melt rejected the theory that he coordinated with executives from other tech companies to target Alex Jones. The widely-loathed political commentator has been vehemently propagating the idea that Democrat-controlled tech companies take silenced'bourgeois' voices like him."I've never fifty-fifty had a conversation about this with whatever tech company. Nosotros brand our decisions independently. I think that'southward important. Honestly, I've had no conversations and to my knowledge, no one in Apple has", Melt added.

He likewise pointed out that Apple doesn't have a political stand, and this policy is clearly evident from the diversity of content present in Apple's ecosystem, which ranges from 'very conservative to very liberal'.