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Re:Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual ga... by jMyles on Saturday November 07, 2020 @08:17PM (#25021803)
> There finally needs to be regulation on this. No banning of end user services as long as they're legal

I was with you up until this moment.

Doesn't this just shift the power to a less accountable authority in the state?

What about content that isn't legal but which is, you know, not child abuse or similar? Does that deserve a platform also? I think that being able to view content on a phone regardless of its approval by the state is essential to a free society.

And, as always, the question is: legal where?

Healthier is for people to find and enact workarounds to this censorship, and to cause Apple to be unable to profitably proceed.

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Re:Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual ga... by danielheath on Saturday November 07, 2020 @08:28PM (#25021882)
The state already bans illegal content. The question is whether we also want a second party banning it.
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Re:Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual ga... by jMyles on Sunday November 08, 2020 @02:48PM (#25028368)
It seems to me that society desperately needs parties working to subvert such bans. Requiring that private companies instead actively participate in it seems like exactly the opposite.
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