fromBusiness Insider
16 hours agoApple's ICEBlock take-down shows how Big Tech's power can be used by American officials
When Apple pulled ICEBlock off its app store Thursday, it wasn't just taking down a controversial app. It was showing Americans what the rest of the world already knows: A handful of huge tech companies control the choke points of modern life - and when governments lean on Big Tech, they can use those choke points themselves. For years, this was a mostly theoretical problem, or at worst, a developer gripe about App Store fees.
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