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<\/a><\/p>\nApple News banned a top pro-life news source in the country from the platform Wednesday, claiming the organization displayed \u201cintolerance towards a specific group.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The Apple News platform, a free news app,\u00a0banned<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0LifeSite News Wednesday, just two weeks after accepting the pro-life outlet onto the platform, saying that LifeSite news\u2019 channel did not\u00a0comply<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0with Apple guidelines and their content showed intolerance \u201ctowards a specific group\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Apple did not provide further reasons when pressed by Life Site News, Editor-in-Chief John Henry Weston told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Weston said he does not yet know the reason why they were kicked off the platform.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe are a pro-life and pro-family website, so perhaps they think we show intolerance to women because we protect the right to life of the unborn,\u201d Weston added.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOr maybe because we are pro-family and we believe that marriage is between one man and one woman\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Apple accepted LifeSite News onto the platform July 14, only a few weeks before they were told their account had been disabled, Weston said. LifeSite News had continuously applied to publish on Apple News since November 2018, going back and forth with the Apple for several months.<\/span><\/p>\n The editor-in-chief said there is growing evidence \u201ctech juggernauts\u201d are purposefully\u00a0censoring<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0mainstream conservative viewpoints. \u201cApple\u2019s decision \u2013 made unilaterally, and without opportunity to appeal \u2013 is frightening,\u201d Weston added,\u00a0according to LifeSite News<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt goes without saying that LifeSite would never promote intolerance or hatred against any group,\u201d Weston continued.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHowever, in our current divisive political climate, even mild expressions of common conservative viewpoints are often written off as\u00a0de facto\u00a0<\/em>hatred and intolerance. We certainly hope that this is not what Apple is doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Weston added that LifeSite is urging their readers to tell Apple that this kind of censorship is unacceptable. The news site\u00a0has created a petition<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, which has already garnered over 26,000 signatures, demanding that \u201cApple reinstate LifeSite\u2019s Apple News channel immediately.\u201d \u201cIf anybody is \u2018showing intolerance\u2019 here, it is Apple that is showing intolerance towards the millions of people who rely on LifeSite for our news reporting, and who support our pro-life and pro-family values,\u201d Weston told the DCNF.<\/span><\/p>\n