I began looking into how strong the bias and censorship runs in these forums after I did an interview on the pro-Trump podcast, MAGAPod. The show’s host, Mark Hammond, was disappointed Apple wouldn’t run his show without an “explicit” warning. Hammond’s podcast didn’t contain content that would be deemed explicit under Apple’s policy, and most other shows in the News & Politics category aren’t labeled as such.
On June 18, Hammond talked to Sandra, a representative from Apple. She explained that, since the description of his show is pro-Trump, his show is explicit in nature—because the subject matter is Donald Trump. So, an Apple employee concluded the Republican presidential candidate is explicit.
Liz Crokin
August 12, 2016
Tech Companies Apple, Twitter, Google and Instagram Collude to Defeat Trump
[H/T Michael Krieger.
Ry and I had breakfast together the other day and discussed some things tangentially related to this. I.E. Germany and Japan had culture issues that apparently could only be fixed by their complete surrender at the end of WW II and then the rebuilding of their government and social institutions with a different set of values.
Today there seem to be things in our society and/or government that appear to be so broken, corrupt, and/or deeply ingrained that they can’t really be fixed via normal means. One could make the case that a hard reset may be necessary.
[Heavy sigh]
I really don’t want us to go there.—Joe]
Neither do any of those who have adult sensibilities. However, sometimes adults have to do things that they don’t want to do, but need to be done.
At this point, I am not ruling anything out.
And my military career, I never stepped out of the aircraft without significant trepidation, but I never failed to go through the door and get the job done .
Darn voice recognition:
“in my military career…”
That’s two reasons today to tell Apple to go EABOD.
I’m often told that obscenity is not protected by free speech. The definition of obscenity is whatever those in power say it is.
I know it when I see it!
There’s nothing new here. It has always been the case, throughout history, that one must seek for the truth to have any chance of finding it. By the time the truth has to come knocking on your door, a; you probably won’t recognize it as anything familiar, and b; it won’t be pleasant.
So, Hillary now is the Reset Button?
I’d have no problem with labeling pro-Trump support as “explicit” if they’d be willing to do so with anyone who’s pro-Hillary as well. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
But they don’t do that, because they can only see the evil in Trump (of which I’m personally convinced there’s a lot) but they don’t see anything wrong with Hillary. The double standard is sickening!
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