My impression is that all this may lead to a diminution of moderated app stores as app repositories and far more direct apk downloads. How that plays out for Apple I don't know yet.
A lobbyist group is suing Apple in an effort to get free speech messaging platform Telegram removed from the app store, claiming that it allows ‘extremists’ to spread ‘hate speech’. https://summit.news/2021/01/18/lobby-group-sues-apple-to-remove-telegram-from-app-store-for-allowing-hate-speech/
Wants 'extremists' are set to “migrate to Telegram” after Parler was successfully purged
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