cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6745228

TLDR: Apple wants to keep china happy, Stewart was going after china in some way, Apple said don’t, Stewart walked, the show is dead.

Not surprising at all, but sad and shitty and definitely reduces my loyalty to the platform. Hosting Stewart seemed like a real power play from Apple, where conflict like this was inevitable, but they were basically saying, yes we know, but we believe in things and, as a big company with deep pockets that can therefore take risks, to prove it we’re hosting this show.

Changing their minds like this is worse than ever hosting the show in the first place as it shows they probably don’t know what they’re doing or believe in at all, like any big company, and just going for what seems cool, and undermining the very idea of a company like Apple running a streaming platform. I wonder if the Morning Show/Wars people are paying close attention.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, fuck the Chinese government.

        And the corporations, both Chinese and American, that help support it.

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          1 year ago

          Depends on what that means imo. Global trade theoretically supports the Chinese government, because money is fungible, but is a net positive all around.

          The Chinese will never stop clinging to autocracy without wealth of their own.

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            The “Chinese” will never have wealth, ask Jack ma.

            The ccp would burn China to the ground before releasing an ounce of their power and stolen wealth.

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              1 year ago

              That is not an excuse to stop trying to empower the Chinese to rise against their hellstate.

              Capitalism broke the USSR and it will break the CCP.

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                No, just like capitalism didn’t break the states that later formed the confederacy.

                Even after they lost formal slavery they put horrible policies into effect like Jim crow and share cropping that allowed them to keep slavery in all but name, but were entirely compatible with capitalism.

                Haiti understands this.

                We need to stop enabling authoritarians, who do you think taught them how to build the great firewall, they bought literally all of their technology till now from us.

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                  No, just like capitalism didn’t break the states that later formed the confederacy.

                  It literally did though. That’s why they went to war - the writing was on the wall.