It appears that Apple has rejected an app that warns Hong Kongers about police activity. The Hong Kong police force shot a high schooler in the chest yesterday and put seventy people, from 11 to 75, in the hospital. That app saves lives in Hong Kong. Let me tweet about it a bithttps://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1179108329240424448 …
-
-
Delighted to learn that Apple has approved HKmap and it will soon be available for download. Whether it was a bureacratic snafu or misguided policy, thanks to whoever acted fast at Apple to fix this.https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1180137132842610688 …
Show this thread -
The developer of HKmap is also asking for donations to defray the costs of hosting the site. For safety/anonymity reasons, at present they can only accept payment in Bitcoin. https://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1179863053086494727 …
This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
From a purely outside perspective, Apple just may disallow the location of law enforcement vehicles regardless of the intention.
-
Not in the US at least. The Waze navigation app reports police locations.
- Show replies
New conversation -
-
-
the banal evil view of this is that some low level app reviewer followed a rule about narcing on the police
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
With App Store approval, what can be attributed to intent usually is really just utter incompetence and complete lack of care ... for better or worse
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.