Sensitive subjects.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6745228

TLDR: Apple wants to keep china happy, Stewart was going after china in some way, Apple said don’t, Stewart walked, the show is dead.

Not surprising at all, but sad and shitty and definitely reduces my loyalty to the platform. Hosting Stewart seemed like a real power play from Apple, where conflict like this was inevitable, but they were basically saying, yes we know, but we believe in things and, as a big company with deep pockets that can therefore take risks, to prove it we’re hosting this show.

Changing their minds like this is worse than ever hosting the show in the first place as it shows they probably don’t know what they’re doing or believe in at all, like any big company, and just going for what seems cool, and undermining the very idea of a company like Apple running a streaming platform. I wonder if the Morning Show/Wars people are paying close attention.

    • darmabum@lemm.eeEnglish
      202·
      1 year ago

      well-being of the business…ahead of well-being of his employees.

      Hey, I mean, like, corporations are people too, man.

      • SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        181·
        1 year ago

        So corporations too should have to go to jail if they break the law. Or in this case close down the building and not perform any commercial activity for a certain time

        • ArghblargEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          Funny how that worked out huh? All the benefits of personhood, but none of the downsides, like mortality, having to pay fair taxes, incarceration for crimes, possible death penalty for killing citizens …

          • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlEnglish
            62·
            1 year ago

            That is literally the whole point of corporations, they’re designed to allow people to take more risk. Business law 101.

            (If you grossly abuse it, they will “pierce the corporate veil” and arrest those responsible, but again, that’s only if you’re grossly abusing it)

        • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          Still a sticky problem from labor’s perspective, unless the corporate time-out includes salary and healthcare payments. Maybe except the C suite?

          But then you might as well keep the company open (Unless it is currently doing harm), and throw the directors in jail.

          I always understood stock investing as assuming the risk something like that could happen (I’d a director fucks up, you lose, or vote him out of the job). But now that all of our retirement is tied to the fucking thing it can’t work that way.