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Every media outlet, production company, aggregator, makes implicit decisions about what they choose to fund, air, endorse, or not fund, not air, or not endorse. Is this any worse than the many decisions other channels make every day to support vs. kill certain shows?

Apple isn't obligated to be fair in any sense, and we should stop expecting them to be virtuous or protectors of anyone's expectation that they are.




This would not be the first time. Imagine canceling a top-5 TV show in the early 1970s because of political/cultural pressure...Bridget Loves Bernie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Loves_Bernie

Apple isn’t obligated to be fair, but the public very much can expect them to be virtuous...the two aren’t incompatible. As Apple will probably discover as pressures grow about labor practices in China.




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