A few days ago we you informed about it, that Apple removed Alex J's podcasts from its database in the Podcasts apponeThis is known as ultraright-wing radical and very often supports various conspiracy theories. He is one of those who claims that the American landing on the moon was recorded. And behind the terrorist attack on New York in 2001, according to him, the United States government stands.
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Apple decided to intervene and delete five out of a total of six podcasts that are with Jonelinked here. It is impossible to search for them or launch them. And the Cupertino company was not the only one. Facebook blocked his page, YouTube deleted all channels associated with him, Spotify took the same step, and Twitter is about to do the same. However, this Joneand his supporters did not stop, and his Infowars app (related to the website of the same name, which Joneowls) ranked fourth in the ranking of the most downloaded applications in the News category.
Company Apple also commented on the situation. The Infowars application will remain in App Store available: “We strongly support the diversity of applications in App StoreAs long as the app respects users with different opinions and follows our rules. Thanks to them, App Store a safe store for everyone. We continue to monitor apps for violations of these policies. If we find that their content does not follow them and is harmful to users, we will remove those apps from the store. This has happened several times in the past.”
Alex Jones is known worldwide for his conspiracy theories.
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However, this decision is strange because people will find the same content that was in the canceled podcasts. Many users also see a threat in this case. Apple, Youtube, Facebook and other large companies can decide what information and news reaches people and what they block so that no one knows about it. What is your opinion? This is censorship that should be addressed Apple shouldn't he have resorted to it, or is it right that he removed podcasts with hate speech and support of conspiracy theories?
That way, kids, you don't have to agree with this man (I have a few problems with him too), but the moment you start vaporizing him from all social sites, you become regular communists-censors, totalitarians, whose direction may get lost over time to the level of the 50s of the century, because it is now decent to step towards it.
Even the communists knew very well what was good for the plebs and what was not. It is precisely this distrust in the plebs that is stillonec was behind every disintegration of totality.
Everyone reads what they want, don't make people fools who can't sort out information and wait only for the right and allowed opinions.
All censorship is bad. It will always be damaged or uploaded just like censored content.
people are always trying to impose and regulate something.. it's natural, because things are definitely getting in their way. If people knew the truth about all those political spins, things wouldn't turn out well here :-) it's just thatcaroval circle. When there is too much freedom, censorship sets in. When there is too much censorship, the fight for freedom sets in :-D
Not wanting something in your home is NOT censorship. For example, I don't want a purple carpet in my home, or I don't want a house with achat Jehovah's Witnesses - I'll throw both out. And maybe they don't want Chinese scissors in the hairdresser's and they'll kick out the doorman's door, for example.
App Store, Youtube, Podcasts, etc. etc. It is NOT a public space. There is no automatic, natural right to be there. A merchant, a store operator, simply doesn't want any goods there. For example, I would never sell omelets made from poop in my store. And it would NOT be censorship.
Censorship - is something else, namely a norm ordered and enforced by the state, a law that applies generally, i.e. it has general validity, it does not decide who distributes and how, but it punishes any occurrence or dissemination of the given thing.
The gentleman is free until. It is certainly possible to offer an omelet made of poo on the street or elsewhere in public, please, if someone wants it... But not in my shop.
Exactly. According to the logic of fighting for freedom in case of restriction of some goods in their store, the British with the unsolicited distribution of opium in China in the 19th century were amazing freedom fighters :)
You are wrong, in the case that it is an almost monopoly service and that is both FB and YT and Apple services, it's about censorship. In a capitalist controlled society, where de facto corporations rule, you will never be censored by the state, because the state does not provide these services to the competition at a comparable level, if at all. That's why you can't compare it with your apartment, but with, for example, a large, frequented pub. You can't ban entry there, for example, to old people. And this is something similar, you cannot ban a certain opinion unless you are a totalitarian. The idea that there can't be totalitarianism in a corporation has been proven wrong in practice for several years now.
Something like, "I don't agree with a single word you say, but I will forever prevent you from saying them."
It defines freedom.
Everything else is more or less a totality and it doesn't matter if it comes from the state or from the state de facto governing megacorporations, which are already powerful enough to control the entire digital public space without having any relevant competition.
this is of course NOT true - if you provide a public service, just as you cannot discriminate on the basis of race, gender, etc., etc., you also cannot discriminate on the basis of political affiliation, ergo opinions
according to your argument, then it should be okay to reject a potential tenant, even if it is, for example, more brown than I want, because my apartment is not a public space, is it?
so either you agree with one or the other, or you have a double standard, because the free expression of opinions is one of the most basic human rights, in my opinion it is certainly more important than actually staying with someone
the stupid thing is that such fools are so popular now, I would delete him completely.