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GD paywall and your 2 free reads. Sorry! that was terrible of me and I feel bad.
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What's that even supposed to mean? I have ideas, but I'd like to check.
It means if Apple doesn’t like what you are saying, they will remove you from their platform. The coordinated deplatformings are particularly nasty.
Oh, please. I thought this might be it. I'm not going to get into a debate here, but I will say that free speech lets companies decide what they host. Apple is not a horrible oppressor.
They are an oppressor if they can decide what is free speech and what isn't. Not to be devil's advocate, but that is kinda the definition, no?
But they keep themselves in the company of horrible oppressors.
Gonna try to negotiate this carefully without going too far into politics, but: not really, even if you think social sites should be forced to publish all otherwise legal content (I disagree on that, too, but that's another debate). Apple Music, iTunes and the App Store are, well, stores; Apple has every right to determine what it carries in its stores so long as it's not being anti-competitive or offering content that breaks the law by itself. Your favourite burger place isn't required to carry sushi.
Then the entire world basically is a oppressor. Don't take what we have in America as the standard in the rest of the world. You can be fined and/or arrested for your speech in most parts of the world. As shitty it might be. It is their platform and they can do as they wish. You just would hope they would enforce the rules equally but no platform does. Free speech doesn't even have long in America either. Certain groups in our government atm are just wiping their ass with the constitution.