Apple Criticized for its Christianophobia

In 1984, Apple marketed its first Macintosh and called on Ridley Scott to promote it: the filmmaker came up with a commercial which was to go around the world. It showed a young athlete throwing a hammer into an enormous screen called “Big Brother.”

That was a time gone by, because in the eyes of some, the multinational Apple company has reversed the roles: “Apple has become Big Brother,” according to Jeremy. He is one of the principal members of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the association of conservative Christian legal advocates who challenge those who promote the culture of death or gender ideology.

The ADF was in fact recently called upon by a portion of Apple shareholders grouped within the American Family Association (AFA), a conservative Christian organization, which had asked the company for an audit a few months ago. At issue: an alleged practice looking to systematically muzzle the freedom of expression of those who defend Christian values, with the goal of advancing the cause of wokeism in its different variations.

This is a practice which would be verified both in the operation of the company and through the algorithms which moderate the content of the applications that it distributes via the very lucrative Apple AppStore.

While Apple asserts that it “rejects applications with offensive, upsetting content that is intended to provoke the disgust or fear,” it is most often pro-life ideas or the Christian view of anthropology that is opposed to gender ideology that are targeted by digital censorship.

It is worse when Apple, which poses as a global defender of human rights, markets some of its applications in China. It takes care to systematically censor Christian content or content that departs from the orientations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). 

With a certain haughtiness, the company founded by Steve Jobs rejected the requests for clarification made by the AFA, which therefore made an appeal to the Alliance Defending Freedom.

They brought the matter to a federal regulatory body--the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)--which rendered its decision at the very beginning of January 2024: Apple must allow shareholders to have the opportunity to vote on a resolution that seeks to hold the company accountable for its policies and practices imperiling free speech at the annual meeting this spring.

“Apple must from now on reestablish trust with its shareholders and its clients and reform its internal policies which constitute a threat to fundamental liberties,” Jeremy Tedesco commented upon the announcement of the decision which forces the jewel of Silicon Valley to justify itself.

“Apple is listed on the stock exchange; it must be accountable to its shareholders who are its owners; if Tim Cook [editor’s note: the current CEO] wants to censhor the content he does not approve of, let him take out a loan and buy back all the shares,” adds Jerry Bowyer, a member of the AFA.