[www.wsj.com]

"Apple Inc. removed links from its podcast directory to content from controversial far-right site Infowars, thrusting the tech giant into the debate over how internet platforms should handle divisive or offensive content.

The iPhone maker said Sunday that it eliminated Infowars from its directory over the weekend for failing to comply with guidelines that are designed to create a safe environment for users, including prohibitions on “hate themes.”

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

What do the gay frogs think of this?

About 10 years too late. As a nation, we need to stop enabling madmen and haters. Don't tell me 'free speech', they can certainly get up on a soap box at their own street corner and speak freely.

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About 10 years too late. As a nation, we need to stop enabling madmen and haters. Don't tell me 'free speech', they can certainly get up on a soap box at their own street corner and speak freely.

True dat, selected speech is the way to go.
No inconvenient ideas need to be heard.....

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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution;
one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

While not popular to hear (much less understood by the masses), Free Speech refers to the government not having the right to limit speech. Private companies can limit whatever they want. Just as a bookstore is not obligated to stock or sell any book, Apple has every right to choose what they want to put out as an app, podcast, or anything else.

I'm sure the far right is currently exploding in indignation, screaming censorship, calling for a boycott of Apple, and hitting iPhones with hammers. No one is stopping those affected from standing on a street corner, they just can't do it from Apples parking lot.

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-- François de La Rochefoucauld

"WE CALL BS!" -- Emma Gonzalez

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No one is stopping those affected from standing on a street corner, they just can't do it from Apples parking lot.

Exactly! Apple is not obligated to share things that make them uncomfortable.

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Yep. Sounds like the "free enterprise system" at work - regardless of the inconvenience to a few … if the gub'mint says they can't be heard, then we'll have a different discussion.

Of course, some would argue that Apple and a handful of other companies are the de facto gub'mint.

Or simply fake news.



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Gone from google and youtube too

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While not popular to hear (much less understood by the masses),...

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Exactly! Apple is not obligated to share things that make them uncomfortable.

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Gone from google and youtube too

Absolutely, we should applaud every demonstrations of the symbiotic, fascist cooperation between the State and Big Private Enterprise.

Your support is greatly appreciated and makes it possible.


Then, one day, the shoe will be on other foot....

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Then, one day, the shoe will be on other foot....

Got a left wing conspiracy and hater in mind to ban?

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

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Ombligo
No one is stopping those affected from standing on a street corner, they just can't do it from Apples parking lot.

Exactly! Apple is not obligated to share things that make them uncomfortable.

Yep, Infowars remains 100% free to do whatever it wishes.

C'ain't no "other shoe" drop, when the first one hasn't yet.

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max
Then, one day, the shoe will be on other foot....

Got a left wing conspiracy and hater in mind to ban?

One would think that totalitarian total media control is okay with someone so huggie-boo with China.

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Speedy
Got a left wing conspiracy and hater in mind to ban?

Sure:

The Washington Post
The New York Times
New York Daily New
The Los Angeles Times
The Mercury News
Chicago Sun-Times
Denver Post
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
USA Today
Boy's Life
Field & Stream
The Treetops Tattler
Highlights for Children...

..you have no idea how pervasive the Liberal Drive-by Lamestream MSM Media is!

Another example of the intolerant left trying to silence conservative voices:

[www.huffingtonpost.com]

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Another example of the intolerant left trying to silence conservative voices:

[www.huffingtonpost.com]

Good article. HuffPo was the first to add a disclaimer to non-editorial stories about Trump, noting he regularly lies. Normalization is an insidious thing, wrapped in all sorts of crap.

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Steve G.
One would think that totalitarian total media control is okay with someone so huggie-boo with China.

Like some white program director gutting black minority community programming from an upstate college radio station?....

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max
Then, one day, the shoe will be on other foot....

Got a left wing conspiracy and hater in mind to ban?

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Lux Interior
Sure:

The Washington Post
The New York Times
New York Daily New
The Los Angeles Times
The Mercury News
Chicago Sun-Times
Denver Post
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
USA Today
Boy's Life
Field & Stream
The Treetops Tattler
Highlights for Children...

Yep, anybody on the other side can label them anything they want.
That is prerequisite of power. It gives you a legal mechanism to make the label stick.
It just takes a little bit longer here, but you are quite willing to give them the tools to speed it up...

Look at the poor sucker labeled as a Kurdish terrorist....

[www.slate.com]

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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution;
one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."