Rejects Republican Candidate Ari David’s iPhone App
LOS ANGELES (YBH) – A few weeks ago I hired a company to create an iPhone application for my congressional campaign. My designers told me when we started that Apple would take about two weeks to approve the “app” after they finished the design and coding.
They submitted the app and then we waited and waited and waited.
Recently the designers contacted Apple to find out why the approval process was taking so long.
A couple of days ago Apple responded and told us that they were rejecting the submission, and that they were doing so on the grounds that content in the app is defamatory of my opponent, incumbent Henry Waxman.
Here are the statements that Apple found defamatory.
HENRY WAXMAN…
SUPPORTED Cap & Trade legislation that would have brought us $7 a gallon gas and as President Obama has stated would make electricity rates “necessarily sky rocket.” (This one is well known considering that Waxman sponsored the bill in the House and President Obama is famous for making the statement about the need under his plan for “skyrocketing” electricity rates).
VOTED TO CUT Medicare spending by a half a trillion dollars which would severely hurt seniors. Time to go Henry! (This one is also well known since the Health Care Reform bill just passed a few weeks ago).
VOTED AGAINST missile defense funding, which jeopardized the US and Israel (Waxman is famous for voting against missile defense program funding going all the way back to 1983 when Reagan first proposed the SDI system).
TRIED to make over-the-counter vitamins and supplements prescription only (On this one, Waxman’s original bill was defeated a few years ago but last week, lo and behold, Waxman inserted this language into the House version of the Financial Reform Bill AFTER IT HAD ALREADY PASSED!).
TRIED TO STRANGLE family farms with insane Soviet-Style regulation (Many people have not yet heard about this one so here is the documentation on it. My only problem with calling it “Soviet Style” is that even the Soviet’s would have been challenged to come up with something so stupid to do to our farming industry: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3878/pub_detail.asp).
As you can see not only are none of the statements defamatory, they are all factual.
By denying me this application Apple is now making an in-kind contribution to Henry Waxman by denying his competitor a modern tool for political communication. They are stifling my right to free political speech and they are carrying water for the Obama administration.
It is also relevant to note that Apple pulled all of their advertising from the Fox News channel: http://galiberal.com/?p=8939&cpage=1
Clearly people who work at Apple are likely to be the kind of creative people who may tend to vote Democrat and hold liberal views, but this goes far beyond that. This experience with Apple clearly shows that there is a political agenda going on within the culture of the company, and business decisions are subject to Apple’s political views.
If, as Apple claims, my statements about Henry Waxman are defamatory, it would be interesting to see what iPhone apps Apple has approved for Democrats in which negative statements about Republicans are made, and what standard Apple has held those statements to before approval.
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Ari David is a political consultant and a former candidate for Congress.Ari David article archive.
