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https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps

Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release “dogfood” (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps, like one for transportation. Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we’re told, as the affected apps simply don’t launch on employees’ phones anymore.

The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple’s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a “research” app.

That app, revealed yesterday by TechCrunch, was distributed outside of the App Store using Apple’s enterprise program, which allows developers to use special certificates to install more powerful apps onto iPhones. Those apps are only supposed to be used by a company’s employees, however, and Facebook had been distributing its tracking app to customers. Facebook later said it would shut down the app.

This poses a huge issue for Facebook. While Apple provides other tools a company can use to install apps internally, Apple’s enterprise program is the main solution for widely distributing internal apps and services. In an email, a Facebook spokesperson said “I can confirm that this affects our internal apps.”

In a statement given to Recode, Apple said that Facebook was in “clear breach of their agreement with Apple.” Any developer that breaches that agreement, Apple said, has their distribution certificates revoked, “which is what we did in this case to protect our users and their data.” Apple declined to comment on shutting down all of Facebook’s internal apps in an email to The Verge.

Revoking a certificate not only stops apps from being distributed on iOS, but it also stops apps from working. And because internal apps by the same organization or developer may be connected to a single certificate, it can lead to immense headaches like the one Facebook now finds itself in where a multitude of internal apps have been shut down.

Apple and Facebook have already been bickering over privacy, but this is the first instance of Apple taking an action that directly shuts down some of Facebook’s activities. Last March, Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Facebook’s handling of the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal, saying, “I wouldn’t be in this situation” if he were running the company. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg later said the comments were “extremely glib” and spoke of Apple as a company that “work hard to charge you more.”

 

[DarkResearchAnon]

What if you were one of the slaves who was beaten or killed by a master who in all liklihood would get away with it? Or you were one of the slaves who was separated from your family? Or one of the other millions of things that can go wrong when you’re treated like property in a country you or someone you descended from was dragged to against their will?

Better than being a slave in the ottoman empire, nullified with your bits cut off and having to piss through a slit in your crotch.
Also, something tells me you didn't read my links that would have answered your question.
Have another excerpt, since you seem to have the attention span of Chris-chan
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The Reverend Adams got to know the slave auctions pretty well:

The sale of slaves at auction in places where they are known—and this is the case every where except in the largest cities—excites deep interest in some of the citizens of that place. They are drawn to the sale with feelings of personal regard for the slaves, and are vigilant to prevent unprincipled persons from purchasing and carrying them away, and even from possessing them in their own neighborhood. I know of citizens combining to prevent such men from buying, and of their contributing to assist good men and women in purchasing the servants at prices greatly increased by such competition. In all such cases the law requiring and regulating public sales and advertisements of sales prevents those private transfers which would defeat the good intentions of benevolent men. It is an extremely rare case for a servant or servants who have been known in town to be removed into hands which the people of the place generally would not approve.
The sale of a negro at public auction is not a reckless, unfeeling thing in the towns at the south, where the subjects of the sale are from among themselves. In settling estates, good men exercise as much care with regard to the disposition of the slaves as though they were providing homes for white orphan children; and that too when they have published advertisements of slaves in such connections with horses and cattle, that, when they are read by a northerner, his feelings are excruciated.
In hearing some of the best of men, such as are found in all communities, largely intrusted with the settlement of estates, men of extreme fairness and incorruptible integrity, speak of the word “chattel” as applied to slaves, it is obvious that this unfeeling law term has no counterpart in their minds, nor in the feelings of the community in general.
Slaves are allowed to find masters and mistresses who will buy them. Having found them, the sheriffs’ and administrators’ sales must by law be made public, the persons must be advertised, and every thing looks like an unrestricted offer, while it is the understanding of the company that the sale has really been made in private.
Sitting in the reading-room of a hotel one morning, I saw a colored woman enter and courtesy to a gentleman opposite.
“Good morning, sir. Please, sir, how is Ben?”
“Ben—he is very well. But I don’t know you.”
“Ben is my husband. I heard you were in town, and I want you to buy me. My mistress is dead these three weeks, and the family is to be broken up.”
“Well, I will buy you. Where shall I inquire?”
All this was said and done in as short a time as it takes to read it; but this woman was probably obliged by law, in the settlement of the estate, to be advertised and described.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

But uh aside from this weird tangent about slavery, reparations, segregation, and other things that aren't facebook related, how about facebook banning white nationalism but not black nationalism? Pretty hypocritical eh?

I mean, racism is bad, am I right? I know it's unpopular to say, but I think treating people differently based solely on their race is unequal treatment and bad. Even if members of one of those races did something bad to members of the other race at any point in history, I still think racism is wrong and bad.

 

[RG 448]

Better than being a slave in the ottoman empire, nullified with your bits cut off and having to piss through a slit in your crotch.
Also, something tells me you didn't read my links that would have answered your question.
Have another excerpt, since you seem to have the attention span of Chris-chan
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The Reverend Adams got to know the slave auctions pretty well:

You do realize this is insane, right?

how about facebook banning white nationalism but not black nationalism? Pretty hypocritical eh?

No, it isn’t. To claim the two are exactly the same is to ignore the fact that one exists in response to the other.

 

[Freddy Freaker]

It should be locked for going far off-topic but if it gets locked then people will whine.

Personally, I'd rather rum and coke

 

[Super-Chevy454]

I guess these folks might search for alternatives terms for white nationalism like the trolls of /pol/ tried to do with "Operation Google".

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

This censorship war is sponsored from backstage by Russia and China. These two countries should be whole world enemy.

I can’t really blame Russia and China if the west is so eager to censor itself: that’s just them taking advantage of the tensions already there; Tensions that would not have developed in the first place if the west was not retarded.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

So racism isn't hypocritical, if a member of one of the involved races did something bad to a member of the other involved race.

So, if a white person's mother is murdered by a black person, that person's not a racist when they decide to murder all the black people they can find because they're black, and that's the same race as the person who did something bad? I mean, they're still a murderer, but it's not racist because they have a race based reason for their race based hatred.

That's fucking stupid. You can't say "It's not racism if someone else did racism to someone of the same race as the original racist, then it's justified because everyone of the same race is responsible for all actions of all other members of that race." Or, I mean, you can say it, you're just subscribing to a racist viewpoint, and you're a dumb hypocrite.

 

[Marvin]

So that's a no, you don't have an example of a black student union that was forced to admit non-black members. Here's some other black student unions that make no such statements:

Berkley:
https://calbsu.com/get-involved http://archive.li/PkXZh"Are you a Black undergraduate or graduate student attending Cal or community member wanting to get connected with our Black community?"

Duke:

About Us

BSA Mission Statement: For the purposes of intellectually, socially, and culturally enriching the Duke community, the Black Student Alliance promotes academic achievement and intellectual pursuit,...

www.dukebsa.org

http://archive.li/yMRBO"All members of the African diaspora are considered members of the Black Student Alliance."
Just to be clear, you originally made a blanket claim that (emphasis mine):

Berkeley being forced to host conservative speakers like Milo serves the same purpose of showing that groups at state schools are subject to equal protection rules.

 

[Prompt Critical]

Berkeley being forced to host conservative speakers like Milo serves the same purpose of showing that groups at state schools are subject to equal protection rules.

Again, original claim:

No, school clubs with an official connection to a state school cannot discriminate based on protected classes. They have to let you into the Black Student Union.

We have now agreed, I believe, that they do actually practice discrimination based on protected classes, that this practice is widespread, and that there are evidently no legal challenges to this practice continuing.

Trying to pivot to "well ahksually some colleges will occasionally let an ineffectual conservative have an event there provided he's not run off by a heckler's veto so that's basically the same thing" makes it seem less like you were honestly mistaken and more like you were arguing in bad faith.

 

[Marvin]

Again, original claim:


We have now agreed, I believe, that they do actually practice discrimination based on protected classes, that this practice is widespread, and that there are evidently no legal challenges to this practice continuing.

Trying to pivot to "well ahksually some colleges will occasionally let an ineffectual conservative have an event there provided he's not run off by a heckler's veto so that's basically the same thing" makes it seem less like you were honestly mistaken and more like you were arguing in bad faith.

No, I'm pretty sure attending meetings of a school sponsored club cannot be restricted based on membership of a protected class.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

No, it isn’t. To claim the two are exactly the same is to ignore the fact that one exists in response to the other.

How many years have to pass before white people can be justifiably racist in response to black supremacy? Or do black people get a free pass in perpetuity for racism they never experienced at the hands of people who are long dead?

 

[Don Herbert]

The most interesting and intellectually honest proposal in this thread is the guy arguing that slaves were against abolition.

 

[Superman93]

This is why we can't have a nice alt-right community watch thread. Fuckin speds come and shit it up. They remind me of euphoric atheist back in the day . I also like the fact that if you disagree with them they automatically assume your political stance is far left or some shit.

 

[RG 448]

How many years have to pass before white people can be justifiably racist in response to black supremacy?

There’s no such thing as justifiable racism.

The most interesting and intellectually honest proposal in this thread is the guy arguing that slaves were against abolition.

It would make the underground railroad guilty of kidnapping and theft, which is a prospect I’d never considered.

This is why we can't have a nice alt-right community watch thread.

This thread is it, we’re just locally sourcing the content.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

None, but it explains the lingering resentment because of generations of systemic abuse. And the sentiments behind that abuse clearly haven’t gone away, as evidenced by this very thread.

You're right, we should give them reparations.

 

[RG 448]

You're right, we should give them reparations.

I work hard for my money.

 

[pwnest injun]

Racism is a product of evolutionary forces like all animal behaviors. It's also universal among cultures.
Pretending otherwise and lying to yourself is also a behavior reinforced by selective pressures.

 

[Kirito]

We need to make our own facebook where only white people and based asians are allowed

 

[GS 281]

We need to make our own facebook where only white people and based asians are allowed

BASEDbook

 

[BILLY MAYS]

Racism is a product of evolutionary forces like all animal behaviors. It's also universal among cultures.
Pretending otherwise and lying to yourself is also a behavior reinforced by selective pressures.

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