22.Apr.2010 at 22 | xn
Apple and Economic Ignorance
Wow.
Sometimes the comments are more illuminating than the article.
Take this Wired article, about another app the Apple has rejected from the App Store. These articles always prompt cries of censorship, which doesn’t surprise me, but this comment stopped me in my tracks:
tell me, why, when a government censors something we call it evil, especially if it is foreign government, but a company can get away with that? What is the difference between a corporation and a government, especially in times when corporations are more powerful than some of the nations.
This, more than any paper I could ever write, demonstrates why our economy is going down fast, along with our hard-won freedoms.
When a US American can’t distinguish between a private company, with private funding and private risk, that makes money only when people freely choose to buy, and the US government, bound by the Constitution, funded solely by money taken coercively from others, we are in trouble.
Big trouble.
