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IMHO, restrictions on speech and/or commerce do not need to be imposed by a government in order to count as censorship. Any controlling body will do. If you co
by bookwormAT 14y ago
IMHO, restrictions on speech and/or commerce do not need to be imposed by a government in order to count as censorship. Any controlling body will do.
If you control software distribution on a plaform, you directly or indirectly control every information that customers of that platform receive. I think this covers censorship.
Of course iOS does not have a dominant position in the market yet, so censorship is limited by the customers choice to switch to another device. But as I explained above, the moment to speak against the control is now, as long as there are still alternatives left.
I think this "plain old business decision" is a political issue of great importance.
- gwright 14y agoOk so now 'business' is the same as 'politics'? The problem with tossing all these things into the same etymological barrel is that you lose the ability to communicate effectively about their differences. Government restrictions imposed by force are not the same thing as market realities created by private decisions. Business decisions are not the same thing as public policy crafted via the political process. It is true that business decisions can have public policy implications and vice versa. That doesn't make them the same thing though.