Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

Since X users started using Grouk to undress women and children Using fake images, I was waiting for what I assumed was inevitable: getting X from the Apple and Google app stores. The fact that it hasn’t happened yet tells me something serious about Silicon Valley’s leadership: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are weak cowards who are afraid of Elon Musk.

Here’s Apple related App Store Developer Guidelines: “Apps must not contain content that is offensive, insensitive, harassing, intended to cause disgust, in extremely poor taste or just plain creepy.” Hah! How about that.

Here’s Google A version of the same guidelineIt’s even clearer: “Apps that do not prevent users from creating, uploading, or distributing content that facilitates child exploitation or abuse will be subject to immediate removal from Google Play. This includes all child sexual abuse material.”

But kicking X out of these app stores for blatantly violating policy would mean upsetting Musk and the entire right-wing media ecosystem he controls through X — and with it, directly upsetting Musk. Content vampires who chase clout Who currently runs the United States. Cook’s Apple relies heavily on China, as do smartphones, computers and chips today Exempt from customs duties in China. Cook can give Donald Trump as many golden gifts as he wants, but those definitions don’t have to stay that way.

Pichai’s Google is similarly weak. Trump has threatened Google several times over his placement in search results, and so far YouTube has mostly managed to avoid scrutiny of its content moderation policies because Pichai has been content to coddle Trump with promises that everything he does is good. The biggest thing in the history of Google search. Google also can’t risk angering Trump while AI policy remains hotly contested and Musk’s unhappy influence on that policy is a corruption nightmare.

This is the trap these men fell into: they sold their principles for power, and now they don’t even control their own companies. Welcome to Regulating gang technology!

Apple and Google did not respond to requests for comment.

Less than five years ago, I sat through infinity Epic against Apple Antitrust prosecution. Real heads will remember that Apple’s lawyers made a big point that the naked banana man named Mr. Billy was just that Somewhat unsuitable for court. This came a week after Apple disputed this A standalone storefront that users can install via Epic It was a problem because it hosted porn games, and it played games itch.io “Offensive and sexual.”

Do you know what is “degrading and sexist”, you worthless cowards? Non-consensual AI-generated images of women in bikinis and spreading their legs, and of children with so-called “donut paint” on their faces – which, by the way, were created At a rate of one per minute. I would also call that “offensive, insensitive, disturbing, intended to disgust, and in extremely poor taste” and especially “Just an ordinary creep!” Do you need a back brace to stand up straight, my friend? Because at this point, I’m sure you don’t have a single paragraph.

Hey, does anyone else remember when Tumblr was booted from the App Store? Pornographic images of children? I think the real issue was that Tumblr wasn’t owned by Musk, not that it violated App Store policy. shout!

It’s really unbelievable to me that I wasted it Hours of my actual life In a court case where Apple explained that it needed full control of its App Store to protect its users. Total control of the App Store was Apple’s main argument against antitrust enforcement: the company insisted that its monopoly control over what users could install on their phones was necessary to create a walled garden where it could protect children from unsafe content.

Is Google having the same problem with the Google Play app store? Of course it does, and of course I make the same arguments as Apple, even though they allow side-loading of apps on Android. But it still hasn’t enforced its rules and pushed X to alternative app stores. Why? Hello Google, Show me a photo of Sundar Pichai laughing with Elon Musk at Donald Trump’s inauguration!

The only consolation here is that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is almost certainly having steam coming out of his ears. Remember when Apple snatched the App Store Foundation Certification from Meta because It was taking a lot of data? Ah yes, those were the days. At this point, it seems so Alex Roman wasn’t the only Apple witness lying brazenly on the stand.

I never want to hear any moral stand from these boys again. Next time Tim Cook says “Privacy is a human right“The only possible response is to laugh in his face. I mean, Apple and Google are good at distributing an app that led to a creation Raw image of Grok clothing made by Renee Nicole GoodeThe mother who was shot by ICE in Minneapolis. how He does You plan to defend the disposal Ice Block application While allowing X to generate degrading images of a woman killed by ICE? Can Apple and Google even define their values ​​beyond their commitment to “shareholder value”? What’s your endgame here guys?