It's not only apple. Almost all of the big tech doing that these days, either out of concern about their manufacturing resources, or other motives.
Something I won't support, but can understand their motives behind.
But I am trying to understand how this part fits in the list.
"November 2019, Trump re-election campaign ad shot in Apple’s Mac Pro plant in Austin
Given the context and the headline, Apple working with authoritarian governments. Unless the author thinks the US is authoritarian.
I don't see any problems with any high tech executive supporting one politician or another, if the author is making the alleged Tim Cook's support for Trump the reason to include that in the list of incidents showing Apple working with authoritarian regimes.
You can dislike her, not support her, that is your choice and it is it American way. Banning her from services and de-platforming is not something should be encouraged or supported.
If you are justifying this, and saying she should find an alternative, then you should also support when people of faith refuse to service/do something that goes directly against their faith and conscious, for example.
Plus, if we are still in a Constitutional republic, and equal justice under the law is not just words, then the civil rights acts which were signed into laws all ban discrimination.
If you ban today because someone is in the party you don't like then expect the same done to you, if one day, the shoe is on the other foot.
Societies depend on cultural morality as the first line of defense, and that’s arguably far more true in the US where the law is so blunt that it ought be the very last resort for remedy or justice.
By the time you need to sue you’re probably screwed. Our daily peace depends not on our ability to enforce the law, but on the contentment of our neighbors.
The people in the US either feel the fellowship in the air or they don’t.
Actually it's not Turkish. It is an Armenian food, some of the Balkan states also had it in different forms and different recipes at the same time. Those predate even the ancestors of the Ottoman Turkish empire. This is again, part of the genocide. After committing the actual murders, the culture is stolen all good things are now claimed to be Turkish. They did this also to the Greeks, Assyrians, and some of Balkan states.
"Borek" is definitely Turkish, of central asia origin. You are conflating irrelevant things. Not everything you see in Turkish culture is "stolen" from some other culture, Turks roam a huge area in 3 different continents for thousands of years, they teach learn and adapt, what did you expect? It is getting really tired of seeing whenever something remotely Turkish is mentioned someone jumps with these.
Feel free to downvote more or post more revisionist history. It is not even remotely turkish, but like most "turkish" food and drinks, it was stolen from the cultures they attempted to destroy. Truth is downvoted these days.
As someone who was shadow banned, I left twitter, youtube, and facebook.
The few times I expressed my opinion in a peaceful way, got called probably every name you can think of, and then saw my twitter account suspended.
I was told by twitter support I was engaging in "targeted harassment", asked for proof, did not hear back from support. The twee they referred to is a reply to someone wishing me to die from terminal disease, to which I responded "Bless your heart", and apparently that person reported me for that.
After one month of being shadow banned, which for some reason spilled to youtube and facebook, I closed all accounts.
I can understand why conservatives feel that way. They are the only group getting things like this thrown at them, and I am an independent, who happened to disagree on calls to censor one side over the other, seen first hand what that gets you into.
I have seen reports of gab.ai being popular and truly for free speech, but did not use them, lost interest in social media altogether, and to be honest, my productivity went up after that.
Maybe others have different experiences, but that was my experience.
While this post was fine. I've looked at your few other posts here on HN. HN specifically discourages snarky uninformitive posts.
HN has every right to have community standards. A post such as "Another socialist utopia collapsing? Shocked, shocked I tell you." doesn't add anything to the conversation.
If you look at some of my recent posts where I argue against the government interfering in tech, I'm definitely not pro big government by any means. So I'm not commenting on your opinion just your tone.
I've seen some of my pro-capitalist posts go back and forth between downvotes and upvotes, but I would like to think that I had reasonable arguments that added to the discussion.
You complain about the US legal system, which based on the constitution protects everyone with due process rights, and like countries like the Netherlands which have no bill of rights?
Me and my family spent our life savings, endured the horrors of leaving everything behind to come to the US to enjoy the liberty and rights that are guaranteed to everyone, yet people like you are not happy and want lower standards.
Good riddance. If you don't want to be a citizen of this great country, it would be better than you.
Although I agree with you that this does not seem like a good reason to renounce your US citizenship over, it is pointing out some issues with the US tax code that need fixing.
Your response doesn't address that and reads more like an ad hominem attack.
