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Yeah, this is fascism in miniature. Imagine a large scale experiment on that philosophy. Welcome to Italy, circa 1919.

Luckily it's just a cell phone and there are plenty of alternatives.

Unfortunately, as a market, the iPhone app store is fairly unique.

So, any system with a bunch of rules, like Apple Application process if fascism?

Apple has these rules, they pointed it out to the developer, and let him resubmit his application. Only a complete moron would compare this to fascism and what happened in Italy. I guess it is only a certain law stopping you from comparing them to another figure.

No a system where the local police/magistrate is allowed to interpret the rules however they wish and you aren't allowed to question them, ask for an explanation, appeal to a higher authority or have any sort of representation is facism.

You are most certainly allowed to question the policies. Armed thugs didn't show up at this gentleman's house and beat him for this blog post. Lack of representation alone is not fascism. They also gave him an explanation which is completely contradictory with your statement justifying your assertion this would classify as fascism. Even if they hadn't given him one it still wouldn't make it fascism.

True... Apple only send the armed thugs round when you lose one of their prototype iPhones ;)

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