Apple Denies Free Speech – Refuses App By Republican Candidate Challenging Henry Waxman
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 11:47 AM
Republican Ari David (see video here and here) sent this today. The Republcan candidate running against far left socialist Henry Waxman is being denied his free speech by Apple Computer , Inc. Apple officials notified Ari David that they were rejecting his submission for an app. They told his team that they were doing so on the grounds that they deemed the content in the app was defamatory against Henry Waxman.
Don’t mess with Waxman- Apple won’t allow it
Here is more from Republican Ari David:
A few weeks ago I hired a company to create an I Phone Application for my congressional campaign. My designers told me when we started that Apple would take about two weeks to approve the app after they finished the design and coding. They submitted the app and then we waited and waited and waited. Recently the designers contacted Apple to find out what was taking so long. A couple days ago Apple responded and told us that they were rejecting the submission and told us that they were doing so on the grounds that content in the app is defamatory of my opponent, incumbent Henry Waxman.
Here are the statements Apple found defamatory.
HENRY WAXMAN…
SUPPORTED Cap & Trade legislation that would have brought us $7 a gallon gas and as President Obama has stated would make electricity rates “necessarily sky rocket.”
This one is well known considering that Waxman sponsored the bill in the House and President Obama is famous for making the statement about the need under his plan for “skyrocketing” electricity rates.
VOTED TO CUT Medicare spending by a half a trillion dollars which would severely hurt seniors. Time to go Henry!
This one is also well known since the Health Care Reform bill just passed a few weeks ago.
VOTED AGAINST missile defense funding, which jeopardized the US and Israel.
Waxman is famous for voting against missile defense program funding going all the way back to 1983 when Reagan first proposed the SDI system.
TRIED to make over-the-counter vitamins and supplements prescription only.
On this one, Waxman’s original bill was defeated a few years ago but last week, lo and behold, Waxman inserted this language into the House version of the Financial Reform Bill AFTER IT HAD ALREADY PASSED!
TRIED TO STRANGLE family farms with insane Soviet-Style regulation.
Many people have not yet heard about this one so here is the documentation on it. My only problem with calling it “Soviet Style” is that even the Soviet’s would have been challenged to come up with something so stupid to do to our farming industry.
What’s next? Is Apple going to ban conservatives from using their products too? Do they really think this is good for business? Do they really want to pi$$ off half of America?
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 86 Comments
CommieBlaster commented:
We Warned You!
Is Your PC Red?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOAaUKcFtkc
olm commented:
I fully support a boycott of Apple. No problem!
John commented:
In a similar story, some people are claiming that Google refused to allow any anti Obama blogs during the campaign, although I don’t know how to determine the truth of this.
SteveCan commented:
APPLE = A**holePeoplePushingLiberalEugenics
jorgen commented:
Apple has always been left-leaning – which is why I don’t buy Apple goods.Or eat Ben and Jerry products or drink coffee in Starbucks. Speak with your money!
Big Mo commented:
This isn’t a case of “denying free speech,” but a business decsion — and a poor one at that.
Don Rodrigo commented:
In addition to all those other reasons for why Waxman should go, there is the fact that he’s the ugliest person in Congress, bar none. I mean, look at him! He’s a cross between Porky Pig and a warthog.
Don Rodrigo commented:
Or eat Ben and Jerry products
The other reason to not eat Ben & Jerry’s is that a large (three scoops) of their ice cream runs you 8 bucks.
This is why those clowns have so much money to contribute to the leftosphere.
Elly commented:
sdsdsd #2 –
That language is not necessary nor is it appreciated. Share your thoughts but try not to offend others in doing so.
MadMike commented:
I agree with Big Mo, this isn’t an issue of free speech it’s simply a business decision. If you don’t like Apple’s business practices then don’t use their products.
SeniorD commented:
Well of COURSE Apple will support Galactic Lord Rexworb CLXIII! He knows the double-secret, triple-layered decryption key to let Windows virus writers to start infecting MacOS!
OhNo commented:
Funny the Obama App was in the top 25 free apps during the 2008 campaign.
daryl commented:
Damn! I thought James Carville took the prize for ugly.
Old Hennery Waxman is head and shoulders above double ugly and gettin’ uglier by the day.
JimNash commented:
I know this is off topic, but the pic attached to the story here suggests to me, without any wiggle room for any other possibilities….that inbreeding is definately at play here…Damn!!
Sorry, the elephant was just to large to ignore.
Auntie Em commented:
He is the Elephant Man of modern times….except he’s on the Elephant Man on crystal meth.
I just got an iPhone. I have a Fox News app and a news talk radio app, that is Anti-Obama.
Just donated to Ari’s campaign. Thanks Apple for helping to point me in the right direction.
Cheers!
pm commented:
Was considering an Apple for a new computer – won’t now.
Try to avoid Google when heard the founder had been hired by this administration. Geller has complained that her articles have come up on some of the last pages a Google search brings up – (when she has more info than most.)
Also a caller this AM on Beck’s radio show said he’d worked with (Comcast?) doing everything possible to correct what his machine still won’t do: record Beck’s show. It recorded all others. Wondering if he could be the only one with that problem.
Beck mentioned a while back a man had been caught in the Northeast changing the language or wording or something I guess to cause a similar problem.
Chip Bennett commented:
Apple did not – in fact, cannot – deny anyone their “free speech”. Apple has every right to dictate which apps are available through the application store owned and operated by Apple.
Please, let’s try not to sensationalize. It does not help our cause.
(On the other hand, if other politicians’ iPhone apps have been approved, then Ari David could very well have an actionable discrimination claim against Apple. Bearing in mind IANAL.)
That said: this story epitomizes why I will never buy or own any product from Apple. Apple maintains a dictatorial control over their hardware and software, in a manner that I choose not to support or endorse with my money or use.
(In fact, I support openness and interoperability, not jack-booted lock-in. That’s why I’m a Linux user.)
People ask me why I hold such animosity toward Apple. This story epitomizes the reasons why.
bg commented:
++
no surprise here, i mean i’ve been telling everyone that the net (not to mention on tv & in the press) has been censoring numerous articles & videos for quite a long time now..
but guess what..
we ain’t seen nothin’ yet..
and we most likely won’t be seeing much sooner
than we think, perhaps when we least expect it..
i’m old, sick & don’t have a gun.. but i’ll tell you something.. if they come for my right to own one, i’m going to get one, shoot first & ask questions later if i live through it, or die..
==
HandyBill commented:
Waxman attend the University of Arkansas? He sure resembles their mascot…
PB-in-AL commented:
@Chip Bennett – #18 – “Apple did not – in fact, cannot – deny anyone their “free speech”. Apple has every right to dictate which apps are available through the application store owned and operated by Apple.”
Well, yes and no. Firstly, IANAL either. Yes Apple, as owner and operator of the App Store, can dictate what is available. However, the iPhone is so closed a system that they are effectively locking users in a pseudo-monopolistic garden.
If they allow other political candidates, of their ilk, to publish apps, then they should allow this one. I think they need to recheck the legal definition of defamation… truth ain’t it.
That said, I agree with you. I have chosen not to participate in the Apple environment. I have several MP3 players from SanDisk, RCA, and Creative. I refuse to use iTunes. They, along with Google, are about as hypocritical as they come.
bg commented:
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oh btw.. as i ‘ve mentioned many a time, Al Gore is deeply invested in
Apple, as a matter of fact, he’s on the Board of Directors, and not only
that, but he’s also a Senior Advisor at Google..
hmmm, sort of makes me ponder how many
other space cadets are involved in that orbit..
==
Brian commented:
Well well well, this is coming around totally. Over the past 6+ months Apple has been heavily criticized over its fickle policy regarding what apps it will and won’t accept. It makes it very hard to justify investing in writing for the appstore since it may put your livelihood at the mercy of how someone at Apple feels that day. Then Apple decides they want to dictate exactly what tools and even what languages can be used for development for iphone. And now the political statements hit. I predict Apple fades back into nothingness *very* soon…but I’m worried they may start to see *bailouts* head their way.
Arnie commented:
What a load of B.S. Come on behaving this way may make you feel better, but in reality it only makes the Right look stupid… “We only lost because of a giant Left Wing Internet conspiracy. If all was fair we would win every race and hold every office and Al Gore and Steve Jobs hates America and are Pro-Taliban and why can’t I say what I want on a companies CLOSED PROPRIETARY PLATFORM” ROTHLMAO
thebronze commented:
This is why I will never buy/use an Apple product.
H. Waxman commented:
Citizens of Earth. Do not fear me or my civilizations plans for your planet. Your women will soon be ours, as will your tasty, tasty kittens. Apple is doing the right thing (under threat of total annihilation), so please go back to watching your video box and leave your betters alone.
wanumba commented:
Apple has always been snotty. Thye make a computer and close it into a sealed case, because they are perfect and their machine is perfect and they don’t won’t grubby rubes tinkering with genius, ESPECIALLY if grubby rubes have discovered the glitches their perfect beta testing missed.
For all the engineering/software faults of the competition, they don’t mind people building, rebuilding, replacing this or that component. More prole-friendly.
Arnie commented:
I Love this site…there are so many whining children about its like being back in Kindergarten..
Don commented:
Wow! What an amazing amount of illiteracy and hate. You guys aren’t conservatives, you’re right-wing lunatics!
newton commented:
Maybe it’s time to remind Apple Computer that Conservatives use Apple computers, too!
Lord Deathroid commented:
Don, you are one of our better minions. You will be eaten last, along with your boyfriend Arnie. Love your use of punctuation!!11!!
Arnie commented:
I LOVE IT! Now I’m gay because you don’t like what I have to say. ROTFHLMAO
Mike commented:
Cutting to the chase, you can develop whatever political messages you need to get out there for the iPhone by using tools like Appcelerator Titanium, which uses all open source tools and is distributed in the normal cross-platform fashion via the web. Since you have to advertise the fact that your app is on the App store one way or the other, you don’t have to write an app in Objective C and Cocoa that must pass Apple’s stringent criteria to gain access to the distribution system, since the app just gets lost in there anyway. Apple is a message-oriented company, but is not a monopoly, you have plenty of options. There are very nice things about the App store; it seems to drive some developers crazy but users appear to appreciate the extra work Apple puts into it. Apple is, as a result, a very difficult company to compete against.
Arnie commented:
Thank You Mike, brilliantly put! I get so tired of people crying conspiracy just because the world doesn’t work the way they they think it should.
Apple would of rejected an app by Waxman as well, but that truth doesn’t fit with this victim role people prefer to take.
Scrapiron commented:
Apple users always badmouth other products except when they are spending half of their free time trying to keep their Apple POS operating.
Fuzzy commented:
and I was seriously thinking about switching to a Mac, too. Oh well. I can manage fine without Apple.
Arnie commented:
LOL Scrapiron…Yes I spend so MUCH TIME reinstalling my system software because my Mac is so full of spyware, trojans and virus’s… I really don’t have time to right here because I have to install a new driver. Dam which one of my DLL files is corrupted now??? Crap my 64bit OS can’t call some of my 32bit DLL files… Hey I didn’t download anything from that site how come my computer got malware! HOLY CR*P over 300,000 PC Malware sites springing up every day… Source:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2339712,00.asp
How many virus’s for OSX…let me think…UMMM ..oh that would be none.
How much time lost due to having antivirus software scan everything I do…et me think…UMMM ..oh that would be none.
Porn sites visied without fear of computer infection….any one I want
Amount of money I make by fixing such issues on PCs…growing every week…
I love PC users, or really I should say I love the money I make from their dumb asses…LOL
Andrew commented:
‘Tis a shame, since Mac OS is far superior to Windows. Those Mac vs PC commercials were right on the money.
Chip Bennett commented:
@Arnie: spelling, grammar, and punctuation are your friends. Please get to know them.
Strangely, it didn’t take me long to find Barack Obama’s change.gov iPhone app.
Oh, and look! Here’s a politician with his very own iPhone app. (He’s Labour Party – but then, one could have assumed that.)
Militant Conservative commented:
careful Apple, you do not wish to get into a pissing match with your customers. DO YOU?
Your our servant too, piss us off and see if you survive the market. Better product, inferior intellect. powder is dry.
ogee commented:
Waxman is ugly. He looks like the devil. He told disenfranchised PUMA dems in an email that the Obarfy thugs would come in the middle of the night and take them and every american who was not for Obarfy to a fema death camp. That was during the primaries. So he knew about the fema camps before word got out. He looks like satan manifest. ya think?
ogee commented:
I have had macs and PC’s both. I’ll stick with PC’s. Boycott Apple.
D.D. Eisenhower commented:
Bill Gates is a democrat.
D.D. Eisenhower commented:
You people live in a bubble. Where were all you paranoid outraged patriots when the country was being driven into the ditch by the Republican party & your fearless leader G.W. The fact is the Republican party has been trying to kill medicare since it’s inception because they said it was socialism. Now suddenly they are the defenders of that social program. Yeah, right. Here’s some other “social” programs that you paranoid patriots, tea bagging mental gymnists seem to be just peachy with…a public education. If a person doesn’t have children why should they pay taxes to send your little teabagger to school? How about “social security” want to dump that also? How come you vote for a party that is anti-labor if you work for a living? What a bunch of misinformed losers…sad really. The fact is that Americans are paying less taxes than they have in 60 years. Ronald Reagan did not shrink government it grew under his tenure. In fact NO republican president has ever lived up to that promise & we are now seeing the results of Reganomics. You say you want smaller government well what does that mean? Are corporations people too? Do you think that government tapping your phone & filtering your emails is just dandy? Did you know that Richard Nixon proposed Universal healthcare for all Americans? Ronald Reagan also bowed to foreign leaders when that was the custom. You people wouldn’t know the constitution if it came up & bit you in the backside. Ignorance is bliss. Rush Limbaugh uses Macs. Oh no! What now! Quick let’s all panic & live are lives as in fear, ignorance & cynicism.
Medicare cuts (in case you still have a mind of your own)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62J1FS20100322
Steve commented:
Apple does not and cannot “deny free speech” because they are not Constitutionally prohibited from doing so. That said, there is also nothing preventing me from not buying their products.
Radegunda commented:
DD Eisenhower #46, apparently you’re not paying attention to what the present government is doing to us (including Dem. Congress since 2007). Or else you’ve got your “Bush did it” spectacles on and refuse to take them off.
The problem with Bush is that he was not very conservative–as actual conservatives kept saying during his presidency.
Scott commented:
I think there are a lot of uninformed people commenting on this article who seem to be unware of the fact Apple left the Chamber of Commerce because Apple supports Cap and Trade and the Chamber could give a damn about air, water, or health. So quit your whining and find some other creative way to support your Repuglican.
Kevin commented:
Ack. Normally I believe gateway, but this is not a ‘free speech’ issue. Apple can do whatever the hell it wants.
Freddy commented:
Since Apple did NOT claim they do not support political speach, then it is clear that they have a candidate in this race!
Apple’s candidate is Henry Waxman.
Apple needs to receive as much publicity as possible for their support of this candidate.
This is how corporations using their free speach need to be treated.
Roger Mercer commented:
Do I want to get rid of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, government health care and any other entitlements? Absolutely, yes.
They all weaken our economy, hurt the people they are supposed to help, and encourage people to be less individualist, less creative, less self-reliant and less proud of their own capabilities.
They are all forms of redistribution of wealth. As such, they actually destroy wealth. They create a smaller amount of total wealth for everyone.
Money left in the private economy creates jobs.
Which is better: Paying your doctor, or sending money to Washington where tens of thousands of bureaucrats get paid with the money first, and then what’s left goes to pay your doctor?
Imagine what would happen if people owned the money they sent to the government for Social Security. Long term investments would have made almost everyone who retires a millionaire over the last 40 years.
Instead we have a nation of retired paupers begging at the government’s door and fearful of losing what little money the government will be able to give them without bankrupting the nation.
Barack Obama commented:
Does anybody know if there are any political apps for the iPhone?
Chaz commented:
To all those peeps who think Apple’s so high and mighty need a reality check.
The only reason Apple doesn’t have any viruses yet is because no one’s bothered to write any for that OS. That’ll change at some point… then Apple will need a virus scanner just like every other OS.
As for me, i’m happy running Ubuntu on my custom built PC thank you much.
Arnie commented:
Sorry Chaz..Wrong Again!!! The whole no virus’s because of low market share is the product of pure PC BS. Mac OSX has been out for 10 years now and not one virus threat in the wild.. On the other hand the classic Mac OS up to OS9 had a few hundred virus’s written specifically for it.
Now Mac OS X has a larger market share than the classic Mac OS ever dreamed of (Google Mac sales to get info, tons of it out there), so if the bad guys thought it worth the time to write malware for the classic mac OS at a much lower market share then of course they would want to write for OS X since there are a lot more machines running that OS. Since they are not, then there must be another reason. Since Mac OS X is based on Unix (free BSD) and that is a very secure system then perhaps that is the reason.
The simple truth is that Macs are far more secure than PC’s (Ubuntu included) by design…
You can buy Virus protection software for the Mac, but its primarily for use in multi-platform environments so a Mac can’t forward an infected e-mail to PC’s that its received from another infected PC. I for one don’t care about your PC. To buy it is your choice as is the responsibility to maintain it. I will not spend one penny of my money to subsidize your choice…
Sadly your canned knee jerk reaction based of fundamentalist beliefs show the true lack critical thinking skills that sadly is a result of the American education system reeling under attack by those who base their world views on what they want the world to be, not what it truly is…
Faith before Facts = Fundamentalism
Chip Bennett commented:
@Arnie:
Wipe the drool off your chin, Fanboy. That statement is demonstrably false.
Ubuntu is Linux, not Windows; by definition, it much more closely resembles Mac than Windows, because both are Unix-based.
And for the record: Linux is more secure than Mac. Take your pick of any of the past several Pwn 2 Own competitions, if you need evidence: the Windows machine gets Pwned first, followed by the Mac machine. In the end, the Linux machine is the only one left standing.
Real world. Fully updated. Real Pwnage.
What a perfect explanation for Mac Fanboyism.
Arnie commented:
ROTFLMAO….Really pwn2own..thats what you’ve got…the mac being exploited in a competition and not in the real world…laugh my arse off here… What’s really funny about that is the Mac was targeted first because people wanted it the most…go and read the posts from the contestants…once again facts not B.S.
BTW are U going to admit U R wrong about why Macs OSX does not have virus problems or do U just want to call me names to gloss over your failwail???
Linux is great but no where near as mainstream as the Mac. Here is the Wiki listing known Linux maleware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware
Can U please direct me to the one listing mac Maleware??? I’m waiting???
Once again get your facts straight…making assertion you can’t back up make you look stupid!!!
Arnie commented:
As reference to Chaz’s assertion that Macs have no virus’s because of low install base (an argument I demolished in one of my previous posts) and your assertion that Linux is more secure than macs here is further proof of my position. Linux, which has a smaller install base than Mac OS X has malware but Mac OSX doesn’t… If Macs were just as vulnerable in the real world then OSX would have more virus’s than OS9 and Linux because it has a larger install base than both those OS.
Please see link in last post to list of Linux Malware…
Windows 92.21
Linux 1.02%
Mac 5.11%
Supporting link:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/01/windows-7-growing-faster-than-vista-overtakes-mac-os.ars
BTW I apologize to you Chip for the failwail line in the last post as that was about Chaz and not you….apology humble offered!!!
I stand by the assertion though and the facts behind Macs not having virus…
As for the reasons for linux not being pwned the facts show something different…
Interview on http://www.linuxtoday.com/security/2010032601335NWEV
Pwn2Own 2010: interview with Charlie Miller
Mar 26, 2010,
“Pwn2Own 2010 will will be held over the course of three days starting on March 24th, so, we decided to interview Charlie Miller…
“In Pwn2Own 2010 there is still no trace of Linux as possible target. Is it too harder to find exploits for Linux or a non commercial operating system has no interest for exploit hunters?
“No, Linux is no harder, in fact probably easier, although some of this is dependent on the particular flavor of Linux you’re talking about. The organizers don’t choose to use Linux because not that many people use it on the desktop. The other thing is, the vulnerabilities are in the browsers, and mostly, the same browsers that run on Linux, run on Windows.”
Waiting for your response please include facts and links to supporting data…
Oh and by the way Linux wasn’t even part of the 2009 Pwn2own contest…
The first round of the Pwn2Own was something of a redux of the previous one: the Mac was the first to fall (I’m actually not surprised given Apple’s culture of obscurity-over-security), with Windows 7 via IE 8 shortly thereafter. But Linux wasn’t even in the running this time. What gives?
A couple of comments posted on the TippingPoint blog about the Pwn2Own contest might provide a clue. When people asked about why Opera was left out of the running, the response was: “Based on market share we only accept Internet Explorer and Firefox vulnerabilities” (although there were plenty of counter-responses regarding Opera’s prevalence in the mobile market).
If that’s the case, it sounds like Linux was dropped from the contest for the same reason: its market share still bulks tiny next to either Windows or the Mac. And in the abstract, they’re right about it: people write malware and exploit zero-day weaknesses in Windows because that’s where the money is.
Supporting link:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/03/where_was_linux.html;jsessionid=QOVO5L4RHUESXQE1GHPSKHWATMY32JVN
Arnie commented:
A personal note to Chip… The fanboy slight is laughable as I am the one that has supplied unbiased facts for not only my stated positions but also in the data to rebut your assertions…
A fanboy is someone who has a position based on belief (fundamentalism) and not on unbiased/undiluted facts.
Am awaiting your rebuttal.
I doubt I shall receive an apology from you as it would also have to be an admission that your beliefs are incorrect…
Chip Bennett commented:
@Arnie:
How can you argue on one hand that the assertion is invalid that market share plays a role in which OS is targeted by malware, but then on the other hand argue that the same assertion is valid with respect to the Pwn2Own competition?
The fact remains: Linux has never been compromised in a Pwn2Own competition, and Macs have been, every year.
The competition is as close to “real world” as conceivably possible, because it uses latest hardware, fully updated/patched OS and system software, and uses only potential attack vectors that emulate real use.
As for the vulnerabilities of Mac OS X, you should consider a bit more intellectual curiosity. Here’s the first hit in a Google search for “Mac OS X Malware”. I suggest you read it.
Regarding your quoted interview from Pwn2Own, I find it funny that Charlie Miller would claim that it may be easier to Pwn Linux, and yet, with a shiny, new Linux laptop there for the taking, he has yet to attempt to Pwn one.
Money where one’s mouth is, and all that.
As for inherent Linux vulnerability to malware, as is mostly the case with OS X, any malware binaries would basically have to be explicitly run by the user.
(Which is mentioned in the Wikipedia article you linked. Do you actually read the material you cite?)
Show me a remotely compromised Linux (desktop or server) system, in the wild.
As for the rest: you have shown me no evidence whatsoever to cause me to change my opinion of you as a Mac Fanboy.
Arnie commented:
ROTFLMAO…
Chip U R a joke me old matey.. I show U real world Malware for Linux and U show me a white paper for the potential of Malware on the Mac…LOLLOLLOLLOLLOL… Come on.
Show ME SOME REAL WORLD FACTS!!!! SHOW ME A MAC VIRUS IN THE WILD!!!! SHOW ME!!!
SHOE ME!!! I’m waiting!!!
Come on Chippy…I’m still waiting LOL…
Isn’t it sad to have only just over 1% market share but have all those virus and malware problems…
Meanwhile I’m surfing the net on my Mac safe in the knowledge that MAC OSX has no virus problem and laughing my arse off at people like yourself desperately trying to defend a hopeless position with Fundamentalist attitudes…
Come on Chippy step ur game up! Stop relying on the name calling and put your balls on the chopping block.. Come up with some real world FACTS…
Arnie commented:
Here are some links showing LINUX Malware..
1) http://linuxcrazy.com/podcasts/LC-49-linux-malware.avi
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HxFGQ8OpYw
3) http://vimeo.com/7006772
Chip Bennett commented:
I think it’s past your bedtime, Arnie. School will come awfully early tomorrow morning, and you don’t want to be late for homeroom.
There is no “real world” malware for Linux. You can’t remotely compromise a Linux system without user intervention.
You’re arguing with the wrong person, and against the wrong OS. Linux and Mac share the same Unix origin.
In any case, your obvious immaturity has exhausted my patience. So, rather than stoop to your level, I’ll simply bid you farewell.