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Tim Cook can blabber all he wants about his supposed concerned about filter bubbles — his company, on his watch, is banning alternative social media platforms f
by ibeckermayer 7y ago
Tim Cook can blabber all he wants about his supposed concerned about filter bubbles — his company, on his watch, is banning alternative social media platforms from putting apps on his App Store (Gab, for example).
While he spouts off about taking action instead of debating, he actively bans alternatives to the status-quo. Shut it, Tim. I don’t buy your propaganda.
- askafriend 7y agoGab is extremely toxic trash...I can completely see why they'd ban it.
- IronWolve 7y agoGab offered a censored version for Apple, twitter does not, and twitter allows porn. Gab being banned was political choice by Apple, there was no reason to ban the censored version when they allow uncensored twitter/instagram/etc.
- newfriend 7y agoI've decided your comment is toxic, you should be banned.
- askafriend 7y agoIf you own the site, feel free to ban me. You have every right to. Apple doesn't want Gab on their platform? Well it's Apple's platform, so you have to play by their rules. If you don't like it, you can go create your own technology. That's how this works.
- ibeckermayer 7y agoI never questioned if they can, I questioned if they should. "It's mine and I can do whatever I want" is the moral reasoning of a (low IQ) teenager.
- askafriend 7y agoI was responding to @newfriend who wanted me banned for my comment. This is how free speech works. You can't come into my home and say whatever you want. I'll kick you out onto the streets, the same way Apple kicked Gab off their platform. You can say whatever you want in your own home, though.
- ibeckermayer 7y agoAgain I understand that they can, and in principle they have the right to ban people from their platform. My point is that they shouldn't, so you repeating that "they can" is irrelevant. A friend of mine laid this out more eloquently here: https://wissler-jensen.com/declaration https://wissler-jensen.com/declaration
- ibeckermayer 7y agoGreat point from a brilliant mind. You should decide for everybody what ideas they can and can't see on the internet, and what applications they can and can't download onto their hardware. Thanks for watching out for all of us.
- Kye 7y agoI see tons of Mastodon clients on there. Toot! is a good one. The dev even added an option to change the icon to a trans flag.