Apple won't let Facebook tell users about 30-percent Apple tax on events:
Facebook announced a new feature for paid online events earlier this month. It allows small businesses to host virtual cooking classes, workout sessions, happy hours, and other events and charge people to participate.
In its announcement, Facebook said it was not taking a cut of customers' payments. That means that on Android, "small businesses will keep 100% of the revenue they generate," Facebook says. But the story was different on iOS thanks to Apple's 30-percent cut of in-app purchases.
[...] the social media giant wanted to alert users to the 30-percent charge.
[...] But Facebook says Apple forced the company to delete the notice, dubbing it a violation of the App Store's policy against showing "irrelevant" information to users.
Apple's rules state that an app developer shouldn't "include irrelevant information, including but not limited to information about Apple or the development process."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Osamabobama on Monday August 31 2020, @04:42PM
I just listened to a podcast [malicious.life] about the great firewall of China and the companies that helped build it. Aside from the usual American companies (of that time*), honorable mention goes to Nortel for furthering the surveillance state at home and abroad.
*This was pre-Facebook times, of course.
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.