The Wikileaks app has been removed from the iOS App Store because it violates the company's developer guidelines, Apple said.
Trudy Muller, a spokeswoman for Apple, told the New York Times that apps "must comply with all local laws and may not put an individual or group in harm’s way."
The $1.99 WikiLeaks app was only up on the App Store for three days. The developer had promised to donate $1 from every sale to groups that support online democracy. Without official support from Apple, the App is as good as dead on the iPhone and iPad.
Apple's statement echo those of governments around the world who say that Wikileak's activities put people's lives in danger. Companies such as Amazon, Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal have also walked away from Wikileaks, citing similar concerns.
Source: Venture Beat
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The government puts people's lives in danger every day with information. Why is it wrong when others do it?
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The respective goals. The US government generally has a pretty decent mindset when it comes to foreign policy. Assange just wants to watch democracy and freedom burn in favor of anarchy.
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yup, a perfectly descent mindset. one that includes shoving our ever increasing invasive rules down other countries' throats. one that isnt content with just abusing it's own citizens and violating it's own founding principles. the very same mindset that sent the U.S. into iraq looking for WMDs that never existed and started a costly 'war' against terrorism (a concept, not a sovereign nation) and using that as an excuse to invade weaker countries. the very same mindset that tried to demand their own citizens to turn a blind eye to their own exposed corruptions....
yup, a perfectly descent mindset.
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Your exactly right, Julian Assange is an Anarchist. The people should NEVER know what the government is doing, because in a democracy all political decision by Politicians and Elected Leaders should be done in secret and hidden from the public. It is NOT up to the people to decide if the Politician and / or Public Leader has done their job correctly is up to Politician or Elected Leader to say they did their job correctly. The Wikileaks document releases are the problem they are showing what the government has been doing in secret in the name in America which should be KEPT from the public because America is a democracy and the public should NEVER know what the government is doing so it can vote effectively.
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If you side with WikiLeaks, as if taking sides means anything, please redirect yourself to Huffington Post where you will be welcome with open arms. Here, we more highly appreciate rational, sensible people who recognize WikiLeaks is a criminal organization that engages in blackmail, piracy, and terrorism.
Leaking diplomatic cables was a so-what endeavor, but leaking the names and locations of Afghan informants, in all likelihood, got those people murdered. Dress up WikiLeaks in all the romantic notions of "fighting the power" that you want, but when you get down to it, information is a weapon. WikiLeaks wields that weapon, not for the good of society, but merely to drive traffic to its website and give a lonely man starving for attention more than he deserves.
Thank you, Apple!
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Now that Julian Assange has belongs to a Journalist Union, how exactly does he differ from "here"? In fact, how does Wikileaks differ from any other journalistic organisation? Given half the chance, any mainstream newspaper would have published the same details if it landed in their lap.
I have no idea where the US gets off on even thinking about wanting to try him:
a) He's an Australian Citizen so surely he should be tried by Australian Law ... except of course he hasn't broken any.
b) Nothing he's done has been on US soil ... so how exactly is he responsible to the US?
c) Why isn't the CIA pursuing the SOURCE of the leaks? What amazes me is that morons are using words like treason. Surely treason is reserved for those who betray they own country?
Terrorist? The only terrorist I see are those trying to stifle freedom of speech.
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"If you side with WikiLeaks"
So, I can find you on Drudge Report and the Fox News website then, right?
Now, if the US government holds that weapon in a manner that it hurts American lives, that's apparently ok, right? After all, that kind of thinking helped lead to 9/11 and got us into Iraq.
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The informant's names were redacted.
No informanents have been killed or attacked, even the state dept has said this.
If you are going to dislike something, just be honest that you are a nutjob and you are going to hate anything that doesn't support your particular ideals or whoever your talking heads tell you to hate. Don't keep throwing around myths. I mean, come on.. do you have and idea how much of an idiot it makes you look like? It would be like me complaining about Bush because he is a giant lizzard.
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The informants' names and locations were not redacted. You can Google just as well as I can. Why don't you try it instead of hanging onto Julian Assange's every word?
"No informanents have been killed or attacked, even the state dept has said this."
If any were killed, that they were killed would be classified. Are you insane?
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your exactly right. The government would keep any and all related fatalties, problems, and / or injuries classified due to Wikileaks releasing classified information. The government is currently trying to protect wikileaks under the 1st amendment. Which is why Wikileaks is asking anyone to leak the information about anyone being killed. This is exactly what happened with the pentagon papers and Valerie Plame. After all the government is currently being runned by Nazi Fascist Anti-American liberal Muslim terrorist, Barak Hussein Obama.
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Time for a good ol' meme:
Proof or gtfo (I know, it's not the latest iteration, but this one fits better, wouldn't you say?)
And no cheap proof either. Show your work in a comparison between both scenarios that details civil status as well as life loss.
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"...governments around the world who say that Wikileak's activities put people's lives in danger."
Isn't that what they always say when they want to curtail freedom?
People's lives are always in danger, whether they're in uniform in Iraq or crossing a busy downtown street at home. If Wikileaks puts people in more danger, then it's a price worth paying because if people don't get information, they end up ignorant, and if recent history has taught us anything, it's that ignorance puts even more people in danger.
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"...because it violates the company's developer guidelines..."
It's more like "We want to put as much distance between our corporate image and the Wikileaks trial as possible."
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Oh, good to know right before I Christmas shop. I already got rid of my Amazon and PayPal accounts. Now there's another company to not buy from.
"The developer had promised to donate $1 from every sale to groups that support online democracy."
Obviously apple doesn't hold 'free speech' in such high regard. As the developer. I'm so very glad I got a Blackberry and not an iControlYourAppsPhone.
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Without defending Apple either in general or the reasons cited for pulling the app (which in my view are overrated and complete bullshit, respectively), the Wikileaks app that got pulled was apparently pretty much garbage, at least from what I've dug up. Supposedly all it did was display the Wikileaks Twitter and website, both of which weren't exactly something I imagine most people using iOS devices would find complicated.
If anyone actually tried it out and wants to comment, I'm sure it'd be welcome.