Cory Doctorow on Nostr: This was the completely foreseeable consequence of Apple's "curated computing" model: ...
This was the completely foreseeable consequence of Apple's "curated computing" model: once the company arrogated to itself the power to decide which software you could run on your own computer, it was inevitable that powerful actors - like the Chinese Communist Party - would lean on Apple to exercise that power in service to its goals.
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