Today the peregrine rendering of Gab.ai — the invite - only free(ish ) oral communication social connection that has become the de facto plate for many of the alt - right ecelebrities banned from Twitter — was not approved for placement on Apple ’s App Store . CEO Andrew Torba is n’t remove it well .
In aneight - minute Periscope stream , Torba , in a immature MAGA hat and unlicensed LEGO Trump t - shirt , cried loathsome at Apple ’s claim of Gab containing “ defamatory or base - spirited content . ” Gab is wide known as a safe distance for troll , and accord to the current a Gab mobile app has already been rejected “ eight of nine time . ” How did Torba defend his chopine from these allegement ? By claiming Apple could n’t have mayhap establish any of the exceptionable content the site traffics in if they were truly using the limp test account Gab hand them .
The bare - bones physique of Gab that Torba and Co. submitted to Apple patently contain almost none of the feature film useable on the web version . Search functionality and combine provender were , among other things , was remove entirely , and the Apple trial account was n’t following any other user . In shortsighted , a totally blank , useless app . Torba ’s “ gotcha ” was that Apple found exceptionable mental object anyway , he claims , by reach the web app which “ has perfectly nothing to do with the iOS build . ” I ’m sure they believe you .
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Reddit , Tumblr , and Twitter are used as examples of platforms that appear on the App Store . All three doubtless contain some objectionable content . But it verbalise volumes that the only elbow room not to bump race - baiting and hate speech on Gab is by using a edition of the societal web that ’s been put on mute .
Torba , who is most celebrated for gettingkicked outof inauguration accelerator Y Combinator for harassment late last class , even allow in during the Periscope flow that “ your good experience would be to start on the web app and then go to the iOS app after you have a bunch of follower . ”
He promise ( or threatened , however you see it ) to continue despoil part from the Gab fluid app until it receive Apple ’s standards . If we ’re lucky , he ’ll take apart it entirely .
We ’ve reached out to Apple and Gab for comment .
[ h / t Jack Crosbie ]
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