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Re:The Problem with Jon Stewart cancellation highlights a pr... by Spivak on Saturday October 21, 2023 @02:05PM (#37969145)
You won't find any disagreement here, but that's my point. It clearly fine in principle to drop people and not associate with them, the only thing we're haggling over is how "bad" the person has to be for it to be okay.

Or you can sidestep the issue entirely and just let people not associate for any reason they want with the only restriction being when that non-association interferes with other people's rights. And there's some debate to be had when this happens but this to me is a pretty clear case of that not happening.

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Re:The Problem with Jon Stewart cancellation highlights a pr... by unethical_ban on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:37PM (#37969876)
>the only thing we're haggling over is how "bad" the person has to be for it to be okay.

Yes, exactly.

I think people (here anyway) resent the kowtowing to the Chinese government, and so of course will goad Apple for their artistic cowardice, if it turns out they didn't want Jon to cover a topic due to concerns of a dictatorship's feelings.

I guess I'm confused - are people not supposed to have value judgements on journalists, entertainers or foreign governments or trillion-dollar corporations?

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