Apple is a private company, not a government. The question you should ask is do Apple customers want Apple to protect them from those sites? I work with non-h

Apple is a private company, not a government. The question you should ask is do Apple customers want Apple to protect them from those sites? I work with non-hacker computer users all day long and the answer is emphatically that they do want Apple to hold their hand and protect them so they can get their work done without having to fight with their machine. They want a padded room where they don't have to constantly worry about bandaging themselves up from being accidentally impaled on some spike around the corner. Users definitely want a controlled ecosystem that is somewhat sanitized and they are willing to take it at the expense of having the latest greatest features, and also at the expense of paying more.