![]() ![]() Sound familiar? Mind your own business, keep working and buying the expensive products and don't ask too many questions. So no one will really hear about the concentration camps because it's not in anyone's interest to talk about it. ![]() China will not hesitate to ban anything, and that's a whole lot of money lost if it happens. So why not just make your documentary elsewhere? Well eventually everyone will depend on China and no one will want to take the risk. Art is more than that, it has a purpose, and people are actively working on taking that purpose away and dumbing it down so people stay stupid.ĭon't think about China. That's not what films are for, it's just what they have become. The kinds of stuff you'd watch to chill after a long day of work. Chinese censorship has successfully bled into the "free world" through Apple.Īpple wants you to just keep producing mind-numbing, entertaining, boredom-fighting films, as long as it doesn't question the world we live in, as long as it isn't actually informative and upsetting. ![]() So get this: an American can't make an American documentary criticizing China, for an American audience, if Apple is the producer. You're not just censuring it in China (like YouTube or Facebook), you're censuring it everywhere, for everyone. And what is your first rule about that? No China. But now you've gotten involved in film production, which is a powerful art form that can help change the world, get information out to people in ways that no other medium can. Yeah yeah, whatever, you just make electronics, whatever. There's a point where you can say "yeah but I don't want to get involved in the politics of another country". If Russia was their manufacturing partner, Apple would be as anti-gay as it can be. Not because they believe in it, but because it benefits them financially. Apple's main customers are young, modern-thinking open-minded people who are in majority pro LGBT, no wonder Apple is openly supporting gay rights. But when it doesn't, you do the opposite. Because when it happens to benefit YOU financially, you say the right things. To say that you're a pro human rights, pro-environment, modern-thinking company to show that you stand on the good side of the ethical scale, while openly participating in the censorship of genocide by an all-powerful communist dictatorship is just totally hypocritical. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't upset you to your core. I'm sure Hitler would not have allowed documentaries about concentration camps either, it makes perfect sense. I mean of course, it makes sense that China would be upset if Apple did that. So if someone wants to make a documentary about concentration camps in China, Apple won't allow it because it has to lick China's butt. All forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts.Īrticle Link: Report: Apple TV+ Show Based on Gawker Media Got Scrapped After Tim Cook IntervenedĬlick to expand.That's the only part that unsettles me. Note: Due to the political or social nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our Political News forum. The full report about the Gawker show development and Tim Cook's intervention is available to read at The New York Times. As early as 2018, when Apple's original programming production got underway, company executives reportedly gave guidance to some show creators to "avoid portraying China in a bad light." In addition, Sunday's NYT report claims that Eddy Cue, Apple's senior VP for internet software and services, has informed Apple TV+ partners that "the two things we will never do are hard-core nudity and China."Īs the report notes, Apple has explained its "corporate red lines" to creators before. In 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that Cook killed off a Dr Dre biopic "Vital Signs" after being troubled by the show's scenes depicting drawn guns, sex, and drug use. This isn't the first time we've heard about Apple executives influencing Apple TV+ content development. Notably in 2010, it was Gawker-owned Gizmodo that got its hands on an iPhone 4 prototype that had been accidentally left in a bar by an Apple employee. Click to expand.As the report notes, Apple had a fraught relationship with the now-defunct media company.
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