Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps by Ahmadiyya Muslims
For those defending this practice, consider carefully the implications of what you are advocating.<p>On one hand you have a government deciding who can and cannot refer to themselves as adherents of a particular religion (by declaring that Ahamadis cannot call themselves Muslim).<p>On another hand you have Google and Apple, yet again, being the complicit chokepoints of “free speech”, with regard to app developers.<p>These may seem fair to you, but that may be because these practices have not negatively affected you...yet.<p>But consider: Would it be fair if England declared Catholics “unChristian” and banned their use if the term?  Or what if the USA declared hasidic jews “Unjewish” and banned their use of the term. Or what if Apple caved to pressure theoretical from Israel to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses from using the term “Jehovah”?<p>What next?  Government declaring who is and is not “white”?<p>Oh wait......