Why some apps disappear, and why free speech rights can't stop it

Apple's choice to remove an app at the government's behest shows that the App Store is too private to be public, and too public to be private.


I describe myself as AppleInsider's resident "First Amendment rights psychopath." I've always been this way; you can chalk it up to getting put through the American school system in the early 2000s.

However, as such, I've also had to become pretty well-versed in where that rule applies — because it's not always immediately obvious. Especially when you start dealing with "invisible" spaces, like the internet.


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