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Our report found: 1,377 documented cases of app access restrictions in 152 App Stores around the world. Moreover, at least 50 LGBTQ+ apps, including the majority of the most popular ones, are currently unavailable in one or more App Stores. [2/n] #AbolishTheAppStore
— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) June 14, 2021
?️??? NEW: As LGBTQ+ people around the world celebrate #pride , a new report from Fight for the Future and @GreatFireChina shows how @Apple's #AppStore monopoly enables government crackdowns on #LGBTQ+ content: https://t.co/IPaZPISGvS ?
— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) June 14, 2021
Saudi Arabia ?? has most LGBTQ+ related apps unavailable (28), followed by China ?? (27). 6/top 10 App Stores with censored LGBTQ+ content are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Among top 20 apps, 13 are unavailable in one or more countries, incl top 3: @Grindr, @taimiapp, and @okcupid [4/n]
— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) June 14, 2021
performative activism ✅
— Grotzi (@GrotziDota) June 15, 2021
selling the same product in rainbow color scheme ✅https://t.co/jWblpoYSak
annoying globohomo artstyle ✅https://t.co/t1CeaqjJNr
(: https://t.co/KJshctjitd
Happy #Pride from Apple, who are plastering rainbow flags all over their marketing materials while actively enabling censorship and government crackdowns on the LGBTQ+ community in more than 150 countries around the world. End the app store monopoly -- it's a human rights issue. https://t.co/PDHznnpJ75
— Evan Greer (@evan_greer) June 15, 2021
#Apple has been called out again for enabling governments around the world to censor LGBTQ+ content, with the #AppStore allegedly blocking access to specific apps to appease governments. https://t.co/udzxg2HZem pic.twitter.com/NmZvEbpD5m
— AppleInsider (@appleinsider) June 15, 2021
How it started. Quoted tweet is how it's going. https://t.co/ByFOYivMAe pic.twitter.com/jMbPdb394T
— Archibald Tuttle (@DeadPrecariat) June 14, 2021
Solemn reminder that we shouldn't rely on capitalist organizations to push for human rights change. When pressed, capitalism will always err on the side of money, not people. It is its nature. https://t.co/hrGhr05pcF
— Ryan Ford (@TheRyanFord) June 15, 2021
Underscoring this are cases such as Malaysia ??, whose govt criminalizes homosexuality but where only 7 LGBTQ+ apps are removed from its App Store; or Niger ?? South Korea ?? where homosexuality is legalized but whose App Stores are in top 10 w/ most unavailable LGBTQ apps. [3/n]
— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) June 14, 2021
The majority of these most popular apps are unavailable in more than 20 countries. The least available LGBTQ+ apps, globally, are: @webelong_app, @hinge, @QutieSocialApp, @adam4adam. [5/n]
— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) June 14, 2021
"1,377 documented cases of app access restrictions in 152 App Stores around the world. Moreover, at least 50 LGBTQ+ apps, including the majority of the most popular ones, are currently unavailable in one or more App Stores."https://t.co/7j1jzRSBJa
— Esra'a (@ealshafei) June 15, 2021
Even as Apple has clarified it will not be banning Grindr, experts say its outsized impact on LGBTQ content globally is "dangerous" https://t.co/cSaaC9EMKt
— Kari Paul (@kari_paul) June 15, 2021
#LGBTQ+ community members, sex workers, and other marginalized groups stand to be most negatively affected by Apple’s “continued monitoring, surveillance, censorship, blockage of apps”:❤️Fight's @gaudette75.
— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) June 15, 2021
More from @kari_paul @GuardianUS: https://t.co/f5wCFGQC2F #pride
Dating apps are not affected https://t.co/a8WFquVucG and NSFW discord servers can be enabled in the settings. Literally 2 seconds of googling was enough to realize that, why isn’t that your first reflex when you hear something before tweeting about it?
— MIRAI ZURA (@zerox029) June 15, 2021
Apple waving the flag for #Pride month while actively helping governments around the world censor apps used by LGBTQ+ people to find safety and community. New report out this week from U.S. based @fightfortheftr and China-based @GreatFireChina ? https://t.co/YMAFfmYx15
— Evan Greer (@evan_greer) June 15, 2021
"Apple's App Store in China has removed 27 LGBTQ+-related apps, either to meet the demand of the Chinese government or in a preemptive manner." - @shenlulushen https://t.co/sTJQwdhsgb
— issie lapowsky (@issielapowsky) June 15, 2021
Call me a cynic but it's starting to seem like most large companies care more about profits than the values they profess to uphold. https://t.co/empoutz9La
— Alex Dukalskis (@AlexDukalskis) June 15, 2021
Today on the Daily: Our investigation into how Apple bet on China and is now having to compromise on its values.
— Jack Nicas (@jacknicas) June 14, 2021
Kudos to producers @stellatan, @austinlikesyou & @sorayashock and editor @lisaechow for their terrific work on this.https://t.co/pNqYMZ8GsK
Apple is bringing to bear its technology and its resources to help the Chinese government censor the internet. https://t.co/2PAwpbKfUO
— GreatFire.org (@GreatFireChina) June 14, 2021
"Research by Fight for the Future and @GreatFireChina, a nonprofit that tracks censorship in China, shows that only Saudi Arabia has more LGBTQ+ apps unavailable in their App Store than China." @shenlulushen
— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) June 16, 2021
covers our report for @protocol: https://t.co/wZqZWlKynv