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Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store

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946 points giuliomagnifico | 2 comments | 01 Jan 21 19:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.489s | source
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leppr ◴[01 Jan 21 19:53 UTC] No.25606251[source]▶
Can we stop endlessly puting Apple's various authoritarians missteps under the spotlight? It's been literally decades now, we know they can and will do whatever they want in their walled garden. Stop giving them attention. Complaining clearly does not work, if you want to make a difference, change platforms. Nobody is forcing you to develop for Apple.
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dane-pgp ◴[01 Jan 21 19:59 UTC] No.25606318[source]▶
Do you similarly think that American newspapers should stop publishing articles about China's various authoritarian missteps?

You could just ignore articles that don't interest you, and you certainly don't need to go to the trouble of commenting on them, although I support your efforts to encourage people to change platform (and reduce their customer base by half).

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1. reaperducer ◴[01 Jan 21 20:06 UTC] No.25606403[source]▶
Are you seriously equating a company choosing not to host an app with the genocidal policies of a communist government?
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2. dane-pgp ◴[01 Jan 21 20:29 UTC] No.25606692[source]▶
I'm not equating Apple's policies with China's, I'm just trying to understand if "Complaining clearly does not work" is a good enough justification for preventing people from learning about bad policies.

Perhaps the argument is that people have a duty to learn about genocides going on in the world, whereas there is no moral imperative to learn about bad policies of tech companies, but by that logic nearly every discussion on this site should be removed.