๐’œdam ๐’ฎcheinberg // sethadam1Nov 28, 2022
Joanne Freeman

EM: <tweets hate and muck>

Apple: pulls advertising from Twitter

EM: YOU'RE AGAINST FREE SPEECH.

Apple: No. We don't want to associate our brand with hate and muck. You're free to speak. We're free to walk away from it.

#twitter #ร‰lonMusk #FreeSpeech

Nov 28, 2022 at 6:21pmWeb
Show threadStephen AnthonyNov 28, 2022
@jbf1755
Vox populi, Vox dei
As someone (in) famous once said.
Show threadRJDNov 28, 2022

@jbf1755 so part of free speech is the ability to keep your mouth shut (aka not advertise).

Part of a capitalist system is 'voting with your wallet'

* Ignoring that in USA free speech is only guaranteed wrt the government not private enterprise

Show threadMichael FreedNov 28, 2022
@jbf1755 I was getting a ton of Apple TV ads before I left the bird site. Looks like they were spending $200k/week in advertising.
Show threadWes JonesNov 28, 2022
@jbf1755 I had been getting a lot of ads from Apple on Twitter, that must have been a huge contract. I just can't imagine how frustrating this is for the people inside Twitter trying to hold the walls together.
Show threadJeffGeeBrownNov 28, 2022
@jbf1755 Should Apple start their own twit clone?
Show threadA.W.Ford, the Curious CuratorNov 29, 2022
@jbf1755 you forgot the line where Apple disables a critical protest tool in China just 2 weeks before these new protests broke out... EM just makes it easier for Apple to LOOK less complicit, being a pompous airbag and all.
Show thread๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ– ๐ŸŒบ ๐•‚๐•š๐•‚๐•šNov 29, 2022

@awford @jbf1755 Point of order:

AirDrop was not disabled. It was limited in that AirDrop can no longer remain open to โ€œeveryoneโ€ (not just contacts, etc.) in China for more than ten minutes at a time. After that time, it must be enabled again for โ€œeveryoneโ€. Takes about 5 seconds from Control Center.

Actually surprised they got away with this in China, if this is true.

Show threadA.W.Ford, the Curious CuratorNov 29, 2022

@ZeKik @jbf1755 point granted.
But just to play the semantics game you said "must be enabled again", which could not be true unless it is first disabled, which is what I said isn't it? ๐Ÿ˜‰

Let's say Apple nerfed it.

Show thread๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ– ๐ŸŒบ ๐•‚๐•š๐•‚๐•šNov 29, 2022

@awford @jbf1755 AirDrop has limitations in China that do not exist elsewhere. They have to be overridden every ten minutes. Annoying? Yes. But can they be overridden? Also yes.

The tool still exists for demonstrators to use. This does not rise to the definition of complicity IMHO.

Show threadA.W.Ford, the Curious CuratorNov 29, 2022

@ZeKik @jbf1755 1 of the critical things that made it a successful activist tool was "discovery through anonymity". This requires the everyone group permission. To continuously require a user to re-enable this openness to anonymous discovery every ten minutes is the digital = of the old Chinese water torture trick. It kills the spirit that helped it spread ideas safely and anonymously, six times an hour, 144 times a day.

I stand by the statement regardless of the terminology. Disabled it.

Show thread๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ– ๐ŸŒบ ๐•‚๐•š๐•‚๐•šNov 29, 2022

@awford @jbf1755 argument for the sale of argument?
Disable = to render non-functional.
It still functions. Therefore, it has not been disabled.

Good night.

Show threadNuddaOz Steph๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฒNov 29, 2022
@jbf1755 I read it the other day on Google. Hoorah. Hope this is the beginning for other companies.
Show threadSundayNov 29, 2022
@jbf1755 Yep. The last part is something that some folks are unable to understand.