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WikiLeaks App Removed From Apple Store

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the dying-of-not-surprise dept.

Stoobalou writes "An 'unofficial' WikiLeaks App which contained published documents from the Cablegate leaks has been withdrawn from the Apple App Store.The $1.99 App created by developer Igor Barinov has been removed from sale without explanation despite the fact that all of the information contained in it is publicly available."

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  1. Red the TOS - Number 21 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://images.worldofapple.com/appstoreguidelines_9910.pdf

    Donations can only be collected with free apps. That's where this specific app went wrong. Simple. Funny that Apple needed 4 days to find out.

  2. Re:Go Apple! by lxs · · Score: 5, Informative

    What legal limbo? It is operating fully within the law here in the EU. Just because a couple of politicians on the other side of the pond have been braying their heads off doesn't create a legal limbo.

  3. Re:Go Apple! by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not random at all... the app violates the donation prohibition in their store. Apps that solicit donations must be free, and this app promises a donation of $1 for each $1.99 purchase.

    Now, that prohibition might be a different reason to hate Apple, but they aren't necessarily going after Wikileaks.

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  4. Re:Go Apple! by SETIGuy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe the laws are different over there, but the last I check here, knowingly accepting stolen property is still a crime.

    Why do people keep bringing this one up? The data in the stolen cables is not property because the US government can not have copyright to anything, and data is not property if it is not under copyright. Transferring classified materials is usually only a crime if you had clearance to receive the materials in the first place. The exceptions to that rule probably don't apply to Assange.

    Do I need to say this on every Wikileaks thread?

    The bigger picture is that this is just another step on the road towards fascism, where all the corporations line up to show that they are on the side of the government. In return the corporations hope to get greater influence over government regulations, government policy and the flow of government dollars.

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