Apple’s Tim Cook has a Message for White Supremacists

The nation may be divided with the current administration, but that doesn’t mean companies are going to tolerate racism, in particular Apple. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook wants white supremacists to get the stepping off of his platform.

Cook received the first “Courage Against Hate” award from the Anti-Defamation League, and said, “At Apple, we believe technology needs to have a clear point of view,” in his acceptance speech.

He said “This is no time to get tied up in knots. We only have one message for those who seek to push hate, division or violence: You have no place on our platforms. You have no home here.”

He also said, “From the earliest days of iTunes to Apple Music today we have always prohibited music with a history of white supremacy. Why? Because it’s the right thing to do. And as we showed this year, we won’t give a platform to violent conspiracy theorists. Why? Because it’s the right thing to do.”

It was this past August that Apple had removes several podcasts from Alex Jones off of iTunes which resulted in Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, and Twitter doing the same after.

“We believe the future should belong to those who use technology to build a better, more inclusive and more hopeful world,” Cook remarked. “I believe the most sacred thing that each of us is given is our judgment, our morality, our own innate desire to separate right from wrong. Choosing to set that responsibility aside in a moment of trial is a sin.”

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