Ok here's the thing. The main difference between a government and a corporation is size. The bigger a corporation gets, the more its power approaches that of go

Ok here's the thing. The main difference between a government and a corporation is size. The bigger a corporation gets, the more its power approaches that of governments, and accordingly the more responsibility it is supposed to have like that of what we would like government to be like, such as supporting equal opportunity and free competition and basic human rights, stuff like that. Right now Apple does not have the power to destroy the First Amendment. It is not big enough yet. But it is putting in place a system now where, if it does get big enough, and eliminates its competitors the same way Microsoft did back in the day, then it will be able to basically dictate what kind of information you are going to have access to. Apple's current behavior has shown that not only is it going to be able to do this, but that they are entirely willing to do it, and not just censor for the purposes of "protecting" it's consumers, whatever their own interpretation of that might be, but censor for the purposes of advancing their own self interest and stifling innovation and competition.