CURRENT EVENTS - April 27-30

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The court referred the matter to DOJ to conifer criminal contempt charges against Apple.
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“… The judge, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, rebuked Apple for thwarting a previous ruling in the lawsuit and said the company needed to be stopped from further disobeying the court. She criticized Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, and accused other executives at the company of lying.

In her earlier ruling, Judge Gonzales Rogers ordered Apple to allow apps to provide users with external links to pay developers directly for services. The apps could then avoid the 30 percent commission that Apple charges in its App Store and potentially charge less for services.

Instead, Judge Gonzalez Rogers said on Wednesday, Apple created a new system that forced apps with external sales to pay a 27 percent commission to the company. Apple also created pop-up screens that discouraged customers from paying elsewhere, telling them that payments outside the App Store may not be secure.

… In response, she said Apple could no longer take commissions from sales outside the App Store. She also restricted the company from writing rules that would prevent developers from creating buttons or links to pay outside the store and said it could not create messages to discourage users from making purchases. In addition, Judge Gonzalez Rogers asked the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California to investigate the company for criminal contempt….”
 
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“… The Venezuelan foreign ministry on Monday accused the US of “kidnapping” Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal, saying she was separated from her mother as she was boarding a deportation flight back to Venezuela.

It also said the girl’s father, Maiker Espinoza-Escalona, had been deported earlier by the US to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

“(The US) once again committed the extremely serious offense of separating families and removing a minor from her emotional environment and, in particular, from her biological mother,” read a statement from the Venezuelan government on Monday.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) denied it kidnapped the girl, arguing it was trying to protect her from her parents, whom it accused without evidence of being part of Tren de Aragua (TDA), a Venezuelan gang the US has designated a terror organization. …”
 


Honestly, I thought the scandals of the would-be Popes in the film Conclave felt shoddy and poorly written. But now that movie starts to seem prescient.
 
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If there were reasonable ways to confirm/rule-out, I’d bet an uncomfortable sum that Trump has vascular dementia. Jfc, that answer was 1. Way off topic. 2. Comically bad pandering. 3. Fabricated out of whole cloth.

Between trump insisting a really bad photoshop was a genuine representation of a tattoo, this answer, the Donny two dolls response, rfk jrs vaccine comments, and the cabinet meeting to make Turkmenbashi blush, it appears this malignant clown show is really finding its footing.
 
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