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Re:Apple removed all VK and Mail.ru applications from the Ap... by kube-system on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @05:38PM (#33001462)
None of this is really Apple’s responsibility, nor is it reasonable for them to be playing the 4d chess that you’re entertaining.

Apple isn’t a geopolitical humanitarian strategist organization. They’re a for-profit tech company. They sell widget to people with money unless they think it’s in the interest to not do so. Period

Re:Apple removed all VK and Mail.ru applications from the Ap... by infamouscow on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @05:57PM (#33001643)
> None of this is really Apple’s responsibility, nor is it reasonable for them to be playing the 4d chess that you’re entertaining.

It's okay to put that burden on the Russian people, but not Apple? Why is Apple so special here?

If you're going to make the consequentialist argument that a consequence of the Russian's allowing an echo chamber is Apple can remove apps, then you also need to apply that to Apple. You can't selectively apply logic when it's convenient to your argument and disregard it when it's not.

Re:Apple removed all VK and Mail.ru applications from the Ap... by kube-system on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @06:40PM (#33002064)
Russia’s internal affairs are not Apple’s responsibility to fix. Nor is it within their power to do. I entertained someone else’s consequentialist argument above but I never made one myself.

> a consequence of the Russian's allowing an echo chamber is Apple can remove apps

Those are independent things, not a consequence of the other.

Re:Apple removed all VK and Mail.ru applications from the Ap... by chimineycricket on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @05:59PM (#33001662)
You would allow a company to do anything as long as its for-profit? Really?
Re:Apple removed all VK and Mail.ru applications from the Ap... by kube-system on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @06:37PM (#33002034)
No, I wouldn’t. We’re talking about removing an app from an App Store. Not “anything”.