Apple pulls WikiLeaks app from the App Store

Apple is just a business and is answerable primarily to its shareholders.

They need to do whatever is right for them as a business.

It's just like it was for IBM when it decided to sell computing devices to the Nazis to keep count of victims.

No, wait...

I think what you find is that the world out side the USA thinks the USA Government is a corrupt inept bunch of fools, The USA has gone down hill fast and the Government have waisted trillions of dollars.
Try getting a VAT/GST try using the metric system. Try getting a good medical System thats free instead of 5 aircraft carriers.

I drive a Ford and ride a Harley. I'm not anti USA.

All the posturing about the risk caused by the leaks is pure bull.

It is inconceivable that among the 2.5m people with access to the cables were not people in the pay of China, Russia, UK, etc etc. No foreign power if any size has learnt anything. No damage has been caused to US security.

But a lot of people have been embarrassed. Powerful people. People who want revenge.

Well, I guess Apple no longer "thinks different."

Might as well pull all the apps about the Constitution, too... useless now.

Oh, BTW, be sure to pull the NY Times app... they exercised their First Amendment rights also.

Nothing like judging before a crime is EVEN CHARGED !!!

Shame on APPLE!

I certainly see both sides of this argument. Whether your are for/against what Wikileaks has done is not what bugs me.

What bugs me is censorship.

Imagine that your ISP started blocking your access to certain web sites. You'd certainly cry foul about that.

Apple, through its policies, is doing exactly the same thing. Since the best experience consuming content is often through an app rather than the browser, I find Apple "Big Brother" approach repugnant and unsupportable.

It IS censorship and it is IS wrong.

So, Apple should be expected to leave an app in the App Store that is used to distribute classified US documents that have been stolen and are being used to extort the government into backing down under threat of a "doomsday" file being released?

Right, of course. It's "freedom of speech," not stealing and extortion!

Good job, Apple. I applaud you for this!

Try http://dazzlepod.com/cable/ to browse all released WikiLeaks cables. It's minimal and easy enough to use even on your mobile devices.

They tell us that if we are not doing anything wrong, we wouldn't have anything to hide...

I'm getting sick of the double standard.

... This is the last straw for me!

I have been an apple supporter for 18 years and that abruptly ends today! I am sure apple can afford to lose me as a customer so no big deal either way!

I guess those juicy cables justifies the fact that certain leaks therein contain information that could potentially lead to certain nutcase leaders to go off into nuke conflict as the one and only leash holder of that country actually is thinking about abandoning them. But who cares??? America SUXcks!111``11 right?

Ugh.

I applaud apple.