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  • Apple Fellow Phil Schiller quits Twitter

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    22july2013 said:
    Maybe the future of social media is one social media engine used exclusively by conservatives, and a different one used exclusively by socialists. Companies with a political agenda will use only one of these two engines, and they won't even advertise on the engine that doesn't suit their own political agenda. Neutral companies may never be allowed to advertise on either platform because they will be banned by each platform if they advertise on the other platform.

    Basically, you have to pick your side before you can interact with anyone on the Internet. Ultimately, socialists will have their own nationwide VPN and conservatives will be forced to have their own too. This will finally bring peace to the Internet. At least nobody will argue about politics anymore because everyone will be on their own political VPN.

    Can we please stop pretending that right wing extremists are "conservative".  They're not.  They're racist, homophobic, transphobic, anti-science, absolutely horrible people.

    No one was ever banned from Twitter for posting opinions about transportation subsidies or healthcare spending.  Bans were for utterly vile hate, lying about public health, and attempting to destroy democracy.


    thtronn

  • Tim Cook wants Apple to buy Manchester United soccer team

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    Apple wants another tax dodge.
    JaiOh81

  • Jean-Louis Gassee doesn't know who an iPad is for, and thinks you don't either

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    JLG is right. 

    I mean, it's the perfect device for playing solitaire.  It's not good for much of anything else outside of a few niche applications like medical check-in stations.

    It's not a phone.  It's not a computer.  It's this weird thing that just isn't good for much, and it always has been.
    cornchipcanukstormgrandact73blastdoorelijahgwilliamlondonbala1234

  • Apple's iCloud Private Relay being abused in $65M ad fraud

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    mike1 said:
    There's not a violin small enough to express how little i care about advertisers and their revenue.

    I care.  I want them all to crash and burn.

    I've got multiple layers of tools to keep their intrusive crap and tracking from getting to my systems.

    The worst part is that all of that was never necessary.  It used to be that ads were mostly nonintrusive.  Sure, they took up space on the page, but they just sat there, didn't do anything, and the only "metric" the advertiser got back was "how many copies of this newspaper or magazine were distributed".  TV ads were more annoying, but all advertisers could do was broadcast them, they had no idea who was watching.

    And the world didn't end.

    We need laws prohibiting ads from tracking people.  Until then, I fully approve of all schemes to cost advertisers LOTS of money on fake eyeballs.
    DAalsethrob53bloggerbloglam92103FileMakerFeller

  • St. Louis Apple Store second to seek IAM union membership

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    davgreg said:
    Unions in the American form are cancer.
    I will not knowingly shop at any unionized Apple Store and as a shareholder would prefer they shutter them or lock out the now former employees.

    Given the current Supreme Court, Apple should seek to gut the Wagner Act a.k.a. The National Labor Relations Act.


    Do you want Apple stores firebombed?  Because that's how you get Apple stores firebombed.

    Unions allow employees to peacefully negotiate with employers.  Take that away, and you get violent strikes.  It's happened in America before, and it can happen again.

    So sit down and STFU about unions if you don't have positive things to say about them.  American workers are sick of the real cancer on America today - unchecked corporate power.
    muthuk_vanalingamronndanox