On Stewart's Apple TV Plus show ends, reportedly over coverage of AI and China (opens in new tab)

More like Apple decided to self-censor so as to not provoke China, which is despicable. Same happened with Disney and praising the local government where Uyghurs are put in internment camps.

>I love how the PRC now gets to dictate our content moderation policies

It is not now, They have been doing this for close to a decade.

Apple needs that big cake, so they won't let it happen.

That's not the money clip, this is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_sEqfIL9Q

Especially the latter portion.

They block posts about it on their subreddit, ironically enough.

I don’t. But I do find them more aligned with my interests elsewhere. Much more so than Google, Facebook, Samsung, or the other monsters out there. Pick your poison.

I’m not a fanboy, and I disagree with it. I’m not going to stop using apple products, because what’s the alternative?

For phones I get to choose between apple and google. This pales in comparison to what Google’s doing. So it’s like choosing between a punch in the face and being set on fire. I don’t like being punched in the face, but I have to have a phone.

For work, it’s between Apple and Microsoft. Again, holy mole is there a difference. Do I want this behavior from apple or ads on my desktop and forced patches in the middle of my presentation. I need a computer.

Don’t mistake this for “turning a blind eye.”

You have no idea how much I wanted a third alternative instead of Google and Apple.

But right now I don't have much of a choice. And that is as someone who is well versed in Apple's supply chain and China policy well before it even got to the media.

> How do you Apple fanboys turn a blind eye to this level of bullshit.

Google deserves credit for giving up some of their search and app business rather than submitting to censorship.

However, as I understand it, many Pixel phone components (and some of the phones themselves) are still made in China, although Google has some manufacturing in India and elsewhere.

Jon Stewart has never been a journalist, he's always been an entertainer. The Daily Show was not news, it was entertainment. His current iteration is worse because he now he pretends to do real news where before he was self aware of being entertainment, it was part of the joke. But he isn't different from Tucker or Maddow. He's now just cranking the Rage Machine to get his nut. The outrage on your part is just as false as the outrage he spews. He's entertainment. His entertainment should be controlled and owned by the people paying for it. There's no editorial independence to protect because it's not journalism.