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  • Apple strips vocals from Idris Elba's music in iPhone 14 ad

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    JP234 said:
    ronn said:
    Using common sense and decency. Why is that bad on Apple's end? 
    It's only bad if you don't consider censorship to be "common sense and decency."
    I don't listen to that $41+ either. But censoring what people want to hear on one platform is a waste of effort. There are legions of other music services. This and all other negative influences in our lives (deviant sex, drugs, profanity, alcohol, tobacco, religious fundamentalism, social media disinformation) cannot be mitigated on the supply side. As long as there is a demand for something, there will be someone to supply it. That goes for explicit lyrics as well. And if you've ever watched Apple TV+, you've been exposed to all of those I mentioned, so the music censorship is just a red herring to draw your attention. Apparently it worked.
    So Apple is censoring itself? What nonsense. They don't want to be associated with anything negative and took the step of changing the music that listeners think is repeatedly using a slur. A simple matter and for them, the right thing to do.
    urashidwatto_cobra

  • Apple's ad agency recommends a stop to Twitter campaigns

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    Musty is the crazy drunk uncle that everyone remembers as pissy and slightly frazzled. He's invited everyone to Thanksgiving Dinner, taken a dump in the middle of the parlor and doesn't understand why everyone is going elsewhere. They simply want him to clean up, tone down the crazy talk, and maybe they'll be back after place airs out.
    williamlondonFileMakerFellerjony0

  • Apple strips vocals from Idris Elba's music in iPhone 14 ad

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    Using common sense and decency. Why is that bad on Apple's end? 
    watto_cobra

  • Tim Cook wants Apple to buy Manchester United soccer team

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    First he'll buy Netflix &Disney, and pull up in the Apple Car to make the announcement.
    mknelsonzeus423stevenozJaiOh81ols

  • Hundreds riot at Foxconn iPhone plant over terrible conditions

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    Madbum said:
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    Foxconn is a shitty company. The riot happened because they constantly mistreat workers already facing draconian measures from the CCP. Food shortages, being held prisoner and then delaying bonuses (wouldn't surprise me if the workers never get those promised bonuses) Guess everyone forgot about the Foxconn riot in India due to their shortchanging/cheating workers there.
    Do you do research or you just say things out of your butt? Foxconn is owned by Democratic Taiwan and pays the highest wages of any factory in China. Higher wages than say the factory where the shoe you are wearing now is made by about 10x.

    This is a off books Weibo hit by the CCP so they can deny they are involved. No different than all those fake “Tesla brake malfunctions” that has been debunked

    In China, Foxconn from  Taiwan is one of the good guys 
    Higher wages means shit when you're held prisoner with co-workers that have COVID. It means shit when you're scrounging for food. It means shit when your promised bonus is going to be delayed (and you believe possibly never will materialize). This is par for the course at Foxconn prisons facilities. From suicide nets in the past to frequent uprisings/riots now. They'll simply deflect responsibility unto others. Contractors. Recruiters. The CCP (which they work hand-in-hand with). 
    Fred257neoncat