New York (CNN Business) Apple, along with Amazon and Google, effectively kicked Parler off the internet in the wake of the January 6 US Capitol siege. Despite criticism that Big Tech wields too much power over speech, Apple CEO Tim Cook defended his decision. "We looked at the incitement to violence that was on there," Cook told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." "We don't consider that free speech and incitement to violence has an intersection." Some critics of Apple and its cohort's decisions to ban Parler have argued that pushing the app out of the mainstream will drive participants to dark channels of the internet -- and potentially deeper down the rabbit hole of radicalization.

Source: CNN January 17, 2021 17:03 UTC