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    Clipping a way Jon Stewart and now editing speeches. WTF is going on.

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      Apple is about making money. If honesty and integrity do not increase profits, they will be discarded.

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          They all do until it affects profits.

          Corporations are legal people but they are all literal psychopaths. They will do or say anything to keep the profits rolling and the real humans mean nothing to them.

          We are nothing but a means to an end and that end is profits.

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          Yep. He references issues both in the past and present that tie directly into this film they’re promoting, yet they censored all this out while pretending like they give a shit about these causes because they put it into a for-profit movie they created.

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          Looking like they care about “privacy” and “issues” is purely accidental.

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        Well, yes. There have been a lot of reasons to dislike Apple but censorship was not one of them.

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          You must not be aware then that Apple gladly removes VPN apps from the Chinese app store to continue selling their phones there

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            VPN services are illegal in China. Apple doesn’t “gladly” remove the apps but they can’t just not comply with the law. But Apple has helpfully built VPN support directly into the operating system. Once you get the configuration stuff from your provider, you can set it up in the Settings app. Apple did the bare minimum of legal compliance by removing the apps, but also made it so you don’t need the apps in the first place.

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          There have been a lot of reasons to dislike Apple but censorship was only a minor one of them.

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      Tbf, it’s the same rant Bobby always gives and they were probably hoping to skip it as well as keep their ceremonies moving.

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    How do execs not understand the Streisand Effect yet? If DeNiro had just made the speech and criticized Trump and the industry, I never would have read past the headline. Good for him for speaking out, but I’m good and over “celebrity bashes Trump” stories. Ah but Apple censors Trump criticism, well now you’ve got my click and my eyeballs. So dumb. Also evil. But mostly just dumb.

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      What worse is, I was thinking of watching the movie, but knowing it’s Apple, and knowing all the control they try to push on the content, then maybe is not worth it.

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      Yeah, “famous actor insults Trump” is such a “dog bites man” story I never would have even registered it.

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      I’ve never even heard of this award show. There probably wouldn’t even have been an article about it.

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      Yes, but now they have plausible deniability. They only care that they’re not taking the blame for it, not that it’s being said. “We tried to stop it, don’t blame us”.

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    Tim Apple has to stay on Trump’s good side so he doesn’t get thrown into the concentration camp with the rest of the gays when Trump gets into office.

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    … in response to “feedback from the filmmaking team that wanted the actor’s remarks to be centered on the movie.”

    Fuck that. You had de Niro submit a speech because you want to broadcast his words. You tried to make him a puppet and have your words in his voice.

    The only thing actions like this cause is that it makes people wonder how many times smaller voices simply just went with the puppet speech.

    I can’t believe they asked someone of talent to write a speech and think he’d just roll along with major changes in the voice.

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      I can’t believe they asked someone of talent to write a speech and think he’d just roll along with major changes in the voice.

      Me either. Absolute fucking Muppetry.

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    Fuck all that noise, I am going to take De Niro at his word on this. They probably knew he wouldn’t approve the edits and tried to force it on him. How disrespectful.

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    Definitely read the article for context. It does not reflect well on Apple at all. I know that’s probably unsurprising and not even close to the worst thing we have read about them, but it’s just another disappointing example. What an awful lack of options we consumers have in trying to choose products and services from ethical sources. Also, excellent speech by De Niro.

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      Well, the first trillion dollar-valued company superpower whom outclasses the rest in terms of capital gains several times over probably isn’t the best place to start looking.

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    When I see people with Apple devices (or driving a Tesla lol), I automatically view them as someone I probably don’t like. At this point, Apple devices are social signals that say “I don’t care about much as long as my life is comfortable”.

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      There’s too much truth to this, I swear I was less biased at one point. But Apple users are too often the type to scoff at data privacy, use the magical cloud for everything, know nothing about how to troubleshoot issues, pay to have XY&Z done for them regardless of how simple it is, and especially eat up all the Apple propaganda (like Android MMS being compressed to hell, which made them believe Android cameras are terrible). It’s a perfect designer phone for a wannabe designer lifestyle.

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      Funny. That’s how I see people who use Google products. But, anyway, how does this relate to the story you’re commenting on?