Apple has taken a stand against websites retailing clothing and other paraphernalia from hate groups and white nationalists.
On Wednesday, the confirmed to the press that it had disabled Apple Pay functionality for a number of websites selling T-shirts displaying the slogan βWhite Prideβ, sweaters featuring Nazi logos and a bumper sticker depicting a vehicle careening into stick-figure demonstrators.
The company also disabled Apple Pay functionality from smaller websites such as vinlandclothing.com and americanvikings.com, both of which retail clothing with Nazi logos.
Appleβs decision to distance itself from hate sites comes at a time when various tech firms are facing intense scrutiny over allowing websites or social media accounts of white supremacist organisations and white nationalists.
Earlier this week, Google and GoDaddy both removed the registration abilities of white supremacist blog The Daily Stormer.
It is clearly stated in Appleβs Acceptable Use Guidelines that users are not allowed to incorporate services such as Apple Pay into websites that βpromote hate, violence, or intolerance based on race, age, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation.ββ
The owner of the americanvikings.com website, Brian James, said he saw himself as a pro-white civic nationalist and told the press he was not even aware that his business had ever used Apple Pay to receive money.
He described the website as a hobby and did not seem particularly perturbed over losing payment functionality or the possibility of it being suspended.
An unrepentant James said that he was unfamiliar with the legal aspects of free speech on the Internet or regarding owners of hosting firms, adding: βif you run a business you have a right to decide who or not you do business with. If they donβt like me, they donβt have to do business with me.β
Before you go
After spending over 20 years working with Macs, both old and new, theres a tool I think would be useful to every Mac owner who is experiencing performance issues.
CleanMyMac is highest rated all-round cleaning app for the Mac, it can quickly diagnose and solve a whole plethora of common (but sometimes tedious to fix) issues at the click of a button. It also just happens to resolve many of the issues covered in the speed up section of this site, so Download CleanMyMac to get your Mac back up to speed today.
Add Comment