Apple removed all VK and Mail.ru applications from the App Store

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.

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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.

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