[QUOTE]PARIS (AP) -- French anti-racism groups dropped a lawsuit Thursday against Apple Inc. over an iPhone app called "Jew or not Jew?" after it was removed from circulation worldwide.Lawyer Stephane Lilti, representing four anti-racism associations, said the decision was "motivated by the removal of the application in all countries of the world."
Lilti said at a hearing in a Paris court Thursday that the app's designer, Johann Levy, decided to remove it. Lilti said while the groups agreed to drop the lawsuit, their complaint "had beneficial effects."
Representatives of Apple in France would not comment on the decision, nor did a lawyer for Apple at the hearing, Coline Warin.
The app let users consult a database of celebrities and public figures to see if they are Jewish or not. The app was selling for 0.79 euro cents in France, but was removed from the French online App Store after anti-racism groups initially complained about it in September.
The app remained available outside France, however, selling for $1.99 through Cupertino, California-based Apple's U.S. App Store.
SOS Racisme, MRAP, the Union of Jewish Students of France and a group called J'accuse joined in a lawsuit against Apple, arguing that the app violated France's strict laws banning the compiling of people's personal details without their consent.
Under the French penal code, stocking personal details including race, sexuality, political leanings or religious affiliation is punishable by five-year prison sentences and fines of up to euro300,000 ($411,000).
Such laws were enacted in the decades following the Holocaust, which saw some 76,000 Jews deported from Nazi-occupied France to concentration camps. Fewer than 3,000 returned alive.
In an interview published in September, app developer Levy said he developed the app to be "recreational ... as a Jew myself I know that in our community we often ask whether a such-and-such celebrity is Jewish or not," Levy was quoted as saying in the daily Le Parisien.
Apple has removed numerous apps from the App Store since it launched in mid-2008 for violating the myriad restrictions it imposes on developers.[/QUOTE]
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Kind of interesting to think that Apple could be sued for what is in their app store.
That makes sense since they have to approve everything on it, which in essentially makes them a "non common carrier".
But apple are quite clearly Jewish....
So it's not that offensive at all!
(By the way this is a few months old)
[quote] The app was selling for 0.79 euro cents in France,[/quote]
this was definitely targeted for Jews :v:
Man i needed this app, how am i going to know which friend to get ?
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;33450267]Kind of interesting to think that Apple could be sued for what is in their app store.
That makes sense since they have to approve everything on it, which in essentially makes them a "non common carrier".[/QUOTE]
It is their decision to host the app on their store so it is their responsibility to ensure it is not racist or offensive.
I wonder if there's a "Black or not Black?" app.
[QUOTE]French anti-racism groups[/QUOTE]
I wasn't aware of the Jewish race.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;33451382]I wasn't aware of the Jewish race.[/QUOTE]
Jews themselves view themselves as a different type of people, it's not merely a religion it´s a tribe / ethnicity.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;33451382]I wasn't aware of the Jewish race.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews[/url]
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;33451382]I wasn't aware of the Jewish race.[/QUOTE]
i'm guessing the list of things you are not aware of are larger than the list of things you are aware of
[QUOTE=thisispain;33453631]i'm guessing the list of things you are not aware of are larger than the list of things you are aware of[/QUOTE]
deep
reminds me of this
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvLRYJ2H6Lg[/media]
[QUOTE=Kentz;33451398]Jews themselves view themselves as a different type of people, it's not merely a religion it´s a tribe / ethnicity.[/QUOTE]
It's still retarded.
1. I don't accept our double-raced overlords.
2. What would you be charged for if you hated on a black jew?
etc
I was only aware of one sentient race so far: The human race.
Afro-Caribbean, European and Middle-Eastern, "Jewish" etc are ethnicities.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;33451382]I wasn't aware of the Jewish race.[/QUOTE]
according to their religion, you're born a jew
you can't become a jew unless your mother is one
[QUOTE=Haxxer;33455010]according to their religion, you're born a jew
you can't become a jew unless your mother is one[/QUOTE]
You can convert
He's a Jew bob.
[sp]If you get the reference, you're old[/sp]
Guys Ashkenazi Jews are a race. When people refer to Jews as a race they probably mean Ashkenazi.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;33456483]Guys Ashkenazi Jews are a race. When people refer to Jews as a race they probably mean Ashkenazi.[/QUOTE]
-inb4 retarded comment about the "nazi" part-
But in all honesty I never knew that.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;33456483]Guys Ashkenazi Jews are a race. When people refer to Jews as a race they probably mean Ashkenazi.[/QUOTE]
there are other semitic races
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;33450267]Kind of interesting to think that Apple could be sued for what is in their app store.
That makes sense since they have to approve everything on it, which in essentially makes them a "non common carrier".[/QUOTE]
The bottom makes sense. They approve everything, so the only way this is approved is their cause.
[QUOTE=thisispain;33453631]i'm guessing the list of things you are not aware of are larger than the list of things you are aware of[/QUOTE]
The same is with everyone else in the world.
I'd love to meet someone who is aware about almost everything in the world.
Oh my god
I saw this being worked on in the programming section
he actually released it
Oh my god, I have to get this
[QUOTE=jaykray;33455147]You can convert[/QUOTE]
according to some liberal jews yes, but you'll never be considered a 'real' jew
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