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Media should not be controlled by large entities but you can't say free speech for documentary producers but not for owners. Deciding not to continue the docum
by adriancr 6y ago
Media should not be controlled by large entities but you can't say free speech for documentary producers but not for owners.
Deciding not to continue the documentary is Apple's right to free speech.
If anything you can push for legislators to apply anti monopoly laws to media and have companies split off.
- DavidSJ 6y agoApple has that right. But sometimes the way rights are exercised can still be concerning to others.
- rndgermandude 6y agoI agree. Short of regulating quasi-monopolies/antitrust and illegal content, media companies - regardless of their size - shouldn't be interfered with. If Apple pays to produce content, then Apple can decide to stop paying or shelf it (in accordance with any contracts they entered). To me, Apple's own streaming offering - which at least for now has sizable competition from giants such as Disney and Netflix and Amazon as well as small producers on youtube and elsewhere - is quite different from "social media" companies with their defacto "marketplaces of ideas" interfering with legal free speech of regular people, which I see with far more concern. It is also quite different to their quasi monopolist walled garden otherwise known as the App Store. Apple really is just a minor player in the TV space right now, and far more concerning is the Disney/Fox/Hulu behemoth, where we're slowly heading into antitrust territory.