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Re:Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China by seppin on Saturday October 12, 2019 @04:54AM (#21231594)
> American films often use military assets and personal, and give the military final cut on the films

Which is a voluntary process. How does that compare to top down state censorship?

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Re:Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China by aquadrop on Saturday October 12, 2019 @05:53AM (#21231827)
It creates unfair competitive advantage against those who don't want to adhere to state approved propaganda.
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Re:Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China by noah-kun on Saturday October 12, 2019 @05:08AM (#21231639)
I know some are weak at geography, law and business. It's fine. But Tim Cook, nor Apple, are leaders of China nor a state.

If an executive asks for changes to remove homophobic comments from a Western film, they are not engaging in "top-down state censorship". That's just a person helping other people not be jerks.

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Re:Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China by seppin on Thursday October 17, 2019 @02:36PM (#21285068)
> If an executive asks for changes to remove homophobic comments from a Western film, they are not engaging in "top-down state censorship". That's just a person helping other people not be jerks.

I seriously have no idea what you are talking about. If I had to guess, you are comparing removing hate-speech to adding CCP propaganda. Those are the same thing.

Can that possibly be right?

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