Tim Cook: What users want from us and what we’ve always provided them is a curatedplatform. What we think the user wants is someone that does review these apps, someone that does review the podcasts, someone like on Apple News – where a human is selecting the top stories. And that’s what we do.
We don’t take a political stand. We’re not leaning one way or the other. You can tell that from stuff on the app store and in podcasts, etc. You’ll see everything from very conservative to very liberal. And that’s the way I think it should be.
Reeve: But at what point were you like, “okay, that’s it. Alex Jones has to go”?
Cook: I don’t want to get into a singular type of event, but I think there’s enough there that reasonable people could agree that if you’re going to curate that that should be off.
Cook went on to say he did not coordinate with other tech companies to ban Jones. So, we’re led to believe that it was all just a grand random coincidence I suppose. He must take us all for idiots if we’re led to believe they did not even see it happening on other platforms.
The thing here is that he is using the term “curate” as a fancy way to say “we are censoring views which we reasonable curators find should be removed.” It does not even occur to him that he talks a big game about how the users really decide what they want to view but he is meddling in the problematic content anyway. This ultimately means that Apple, along other tech companies like Google and Facebook, are really acting as publishers instead of carrier platforms.
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