But if you're looking for a government law, how about any of the ones that allow people who create alternate app stores via jailbreaks to be prosecuted.
I don't know the laws of every country, but I don't think it's illegal to jailbreak your phone or create/use an alternate app store in the United States. Your phone just won't be supported any more.
Circumventing digital rights management to violate copyright protection is illegal, but that wouldn't be relevant to the Parler situation.
> I don't know the laws of every country, but I don't think it's illegal to jailbreak your phone or create/use an alternate app store in the United States. Your phone just won't be supported any more.
Companies have argued that it violates DMCA 1201 because you could plausibly use the other app store to install pirated apps or something like that.
They're trying to have it both ways, of course, so they tolerate a couple of small irrelevant stores in order to claim that there are competitors even though they still have >95% of the market. But now explain why Amazon or Microsoft doesn't make their own app store for iOS. Or just sell a mod officially supported by one of these large companies that allows any arbitrary store to be installed on one of their competitors' platforms.
> Circumventing digital rights management to violate copyright protection is illegal, but that wouldn't be relevant to the Parler situation.
It is if it's the reason they can't just distribute through a different app store.
"Code is law" -Lawrence Lessig
But if you're looking for a government law, how about any of the ones that allow people who create alternate app stores via jailbreaks to be prosecuted.