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Published: April 20, 2021

Apple finally lets Parler return to App Store following Republican letter

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April 20, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Alternative social network Parler will be allowed to return to Apple’s App Store, months after being blacklisted for content moderation policies Apple claims it found inadequate.

Apple, Google, and Amazon blacklisted Parler in January, with Amazon forcing the entire site to go down until it managed to arrange an alternative web-hosting solution to replace Amazon Web Services. The moves were based on the internet companies’ claims that Parler took insufficient action to remove user comments that supposedly contributed to the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill.

The website returned with updated community guidelines Parler said were “designed to enable productive, polite discourse among people with differing interests, life experiences, and viewpoints,” but Apple said in March they didn’t go far enough.

On Monday, however, Apple announced that Parler will be returning to the App Store next week, in response to a letter on the subject by Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Ken Buck of Colorado, which said the companies’ actions “seem to lack any of the procedural fairness typically afforded in

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