Apple censors Lawrence Lessig over warranty information

Re:Apple censors Lawrence Lessig over warranty information by logicallee on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @08:00AM (#6633377)

I'm not saying you're wrong, but please don't be so casual with this audience's time.

For example, should we have to do vigilante investigation of every company everywhere?

Obviously consumer rights have to be balanced with the first amendment - and for this reason, I don't think your parent's proposal is clear enough to become a law. It's super-vague.

But don't for a second be so generous in saying that we should take the burden on instead.

I don't want to have to read about underage workers, credit card fraud by companies, carcinogenic additives, gross marketing misrepresentation, or any number of other practices that are simply illegal. Moreover even if someone did want to read about them here, we couldn't police the world's 125M companies.

This is totally literally what laws are for.

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Re:Apple censors Lawrence Lessig over warranty information by rmc on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @11:01AM (#6634599)

This original story was about information about the warranty in the EU. So I don't think the first amendment of the US constitution applies in this case.

(And yes, it's a vague quick suggestion, this is a discussion board, we're not writing laws here)

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