Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

You want to shut down someone making, in your words, “cogent arguments”, because you disagree with their point of view and because other people seem to agree with them?

Cogent arguments is not the point. In school, we were trained to debate - take both sides of the argument. I could easily write more cogent points in favor of Apple.

The point is - what motivation would somebody have to create an account 16 days ago and post like crazy on everything anti open-source and with the aid of voting rings, get up to 700+ karma?

This was not done for some pseudonymous reason. He's being paid to write this propaganda, IMHO.

To build on my point, i was upvoted for the first few mins, but now (a ring?) has started downvoting me....

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Whether or not spanhandler is employed or getting something from Apple doesn't matter as long as they're posting cogent arguments. It would be fine for Tim Cook himself to come onto the thread and start bashing Open Standards.

It’s the internet - people invest time in all sorts of things, arguing their beliefs high among them.

I’ve now read the actual comments - frankly whether you agree with them or not they seem perfectly reasonable arguments to consider and I think the discussion is better if people wrestle with both sides of the debate.

You were no doubt downvoted because you broke the site guidelines quite badly, and repeatedly, in this thread.

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