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I don’t. But I do find them more aligned with my interests elsewhere. Much more so than Google, Facebook, Samsung, or the other monsters out there. Pick your poison.
You don't have to pick a team.
I love how the PRC now gets to dictate our content moderation policies (on a show that’s not even available in China).
It is not now, They have been doing this for close to a decade.
> Apple approached Stewart directly and expressed its need for the host and > his team to be "aligned" with the company's views on topics discussed. > Rather than falling in line when Apple threatened to cancel the show, > Stewart reportedly decided to walk How do you Apple fanboys turn a blind eye to this level of bullshit.
But right now I don't have much of a choice. And that is as someone who is well versed in Apple's supply chain and China policy well before it even got to the media.
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Jon has some great points here about let’s have the hard conversations, and i support his fearless contrarianism. However it’s more of a moralistic liberal ideal than anything resembling a real solution. I think one of the misses is the implication that we can treat people like intelligent adults, and allow them to show up as adults. Vs if we censor conversations (infantilizing the audience) the bad ideas will metast…
> If we if had to choose between metastasize and sepsis, the choice is clear. Fortunately, that is not the choice here. Strawman reductionism is not very productive, especially when dealing with really important consequences like reducing interactions and genuine connections between people.
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Jon Stewart has never been a journalist, he's always been an entertainer. The Daily Show was not news, it was entertainment. His current iteration is worse because he now he pretends to do real news where before he was self aware of being entertainment, it was part of the joke. But he isn't different from Tucker or Maddow. He's now just cranking the Rage Machine to get his nut. The outrage on your part is just as fal…
He can be entertainment, while still being informative. Richard Prior was the greatest standup comic to ever live, but yet his social commentary was poignant and thought provoking.