Consumers happily spend money on - Cigarettes - Gambling - Loot boxes (more gambling) - Micro transactions like gems - Unproven miracle cures The existenc

Consumers happily spend money on - Cigarettes - Gambling - Loot boxes (more gambling) - Micro transactions like gems - Unproven miracle cures The existence of a market and the purchaser's willingness/happiness with the product do not confer value judgements onto the products they're purchasing. You seem to be arguing that consumer sentiment trumps all, and that if customers are still buying, then everything must be ok. > Is this bad for business? We will see. We will see, but this is not the most important metric to track. Half of the people I know won't even comprehend the change, and even fewer will understand the farther reaching consequences if we do indeed slip down the slippery slope that everyone worries about. If at the end of the day, we're at the very bottom of that slope, and dissidents are getting arrested pre-emptively for views that don't align with their governments, no one will care that "Apple users were still happy to buy the phone". You must evaluate these kinds of solutions / policies on their merits (and downsides), not solely on their popularity. In a world where every consumer is well educated and can understand the nuances of this change, then I'd be more open to your position. Since we don't live in that world, I stand by the comments above.