{"id":522914,"date":"2022-12-07T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dismissing-censorship-wont-work-apple-ceos-cowardice-and-more-commentary\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T00:51:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T21:51:00","slug":"dismissing-censorship-wont-work-apple-ceos-cowardice-and-more-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dismissing-censorship-wont-work-apple-ceos-cowardice-and-more-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Dismissing censorship won\u2019t work, Apple CEO\u2019s cowardice and more commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23e7f737623\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dismissing-censorship-wont-work-apple-ceos-cowardice-and-more-commentary\/#%E2%80%9CDismissing_censorship_wont_work_Apple_CEOs_cowardice_and_more_commentary%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Dismissing censorship won\u2019t work, Apple CEO\u2019s cowardice and more commentary&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dismissing-censorship-wont-work-apple-ceos-cowardice-and-more-commentary\/#Twitter_files_Dismissing_Censorship_Wont_Work\" >Twitter files: Dismissing Censorship Won\u2019t Work<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dismissing-censorship-wont-work-apple-ceos-cowardice-and-more-commentary\/#Health_expert_Bassetts_Missed_Opportunity\" >Health expert: Bassett\u2019s Missed Opportunity<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dismissing-censorship-wont-work-apple-ceos-cowardice-and-more-commentary\/#China_watch_Apple_CEOs_Cowardice\" >China watch: Apple CEO\u2019s Cowardice<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dismissing-censorship-wont-work-apple-ceos-cowardice-and-more-commentary\/#COVID_Journal_Scientists_%E2%80%98Lab_Leak_Flip-Flop\" >COVID Journal: Scientists\u2019 \u2018Lab Leak\u2019 Flip-Flop<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dismissing-censorship-wont-work-apple-ceos-cowardice-and-more-commentary\/#Conservative_Beware_Big_Tech_%E2%80%98Entreaties_GOP\" >Conservative: Beware Big Tech \u2018Entreaties,\u2019 GOP<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CDismissing_censorship_wont_work_Apple_CEOs_cowardice_and_more_commentary%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Dismissing censorship won\u2019t work, Apple CEO\u2019s cowardice and more commentary&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Apple_Tim_Cook-e1670359355100.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Twitter_files_Dismissing_Censorship_Wont_Work\"><\/span><strong>Twitter files: Dismissing Censorship Won\u2019t Work<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u2019s censorship of the Hunter Biden scandal to \u201cprotect the Biden campaign\u201d was a \u201ctragedy\u201d for democracy that\u2019s now ending in \u201cfarce, as the same censorship apologists struggle to excuse\u201d it, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/efforts-dismiss-musks-twitter-files-liberal-media-wont-work-time.print\">sighs Jonathan Turley at Fox News<\/a>. \u201cThe back channel communications between Biden campaign and Democratic operatives show a willing use of [Twitter] to suppress political discussion\u201d before the 2020 election. Now, after the release of the Twitter Files, \u201cmany of these same figures have shifted to excuse the censorship.\u201d But it won\u2019t work \u2014 not any more than \u201cefforts to suppress the story itself.\u201d Twitter promises more files, and the House is expected to launch a probe. \u201cIndeed, the increasingly shrill chorus that \u2018there is nothing to see here\u2019 may only prompt\u201d folks to take a closer look.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Health_expert_Bassetts_Missed_Opportunity\"><\/span><strong>Health expert: Bassett\u2019s Missed Opportunity<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>With state Health Commissioner Mary Bassett now set to step down, her \u201ctenure feels like a missed opportunity,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.empirecenter.org\/publications\/commissioner-bassetts-tenure-feels-like-a-missed-opportunity\/\">laments the Empire Center\u2019s Bill Hammond<\/a>. \u201cBassett was well positioned to lead a once-in-a-century rethinking and modernization of pandemic defenses.\u201d Yet instead of looking to restore a battered and shaken public-health system, she \u201cresisted the idea of unwinding past events \u2014 and made no obvious effort to better prepare the state for future viruses.\u201d Tellingly, when Gov. Hochul finally \u201cordered a review of the pandemic response, she assigned her homeland security commissioner to coordinate it rather than Dr. Bassett.\u201d Now \u201cBassett leaves behind a Health Department still in need of rebuilding.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"China_watch_Apple_CEOs_Cowardice\"><\/span><strong>China watch: Apple CEO\u2019s Cowardice<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cTim Cook has been taking a beating over his company\u2019s coziness with Beijing,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/tim-cooks-bad-day-on-china-apple-beijing-lockdowns-protests-airdrop-surveillance-ccp-human-rights-communist-11670278246?mod=opinion_lead_pos9\">observes The Wall Street Journal\u2019s William McGurn<\/a>, and he\u2019s responded \u201cwith silence\u201d to a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of pointed media questions on China\u2019s authoritarian policies and his company\u2019s co-operation with them. \u201cWhen coupled with his outspokenness at home, the accommodations on China make him look like a hypocrite,\u201d since he \u201ch<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ily joined a chorus of corporate leaders who condemned\u201d Georgia for non-existent voter suppression and \u201cdeeply rooted discrimination\u201d post-Floyd. Cook can\u2019t hold himself \u201cup as courageous in places where the risk from speaking out is low while keeping quiet about real oppression in places where speaking out can really hurt the bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"COVID_Journal_Scientists_%E2%80%98Lab_Leak_Flip-Flop\"><\/span><strong>COVID Journal: Scientists\u2019 \u2018Lab Leak\u2019 Flip-Flop<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Newly released emails show that during a February 2020 discussion among Anthony Fauci and other public-health officials of \u201chow to frame a report discrediting the idea that the Covid virus . . . could have escaped from a lab,\u201d two leading virologists overnight \u201cshifted from concluding the virus was manufactured to arguing that this could not possibly be the case,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/emails-cast-more-doubt-on-the-official-covid-story\">writes Nicholas Wade at City Journal<\/a>. \u201cFauci . . . knew that his agency was funding\u201d research in Wuhan. He surely didn\u2019t want \u201cthe mother of all public inquiries into the possibility of a link between . . . research at Wuhan and the outbreak of the pandemic.\u201d Remember, he and other bigwigs control \u201ca huge chunk of the money\u201d in virology. So the lab leak was \u201cright scientifically\u201d but \u201cerroneous politically.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservative_Beware_Big_Tech_%E2%80%98Entreaties_GOP\"><\/span><strong>Conservative: Beware Big Tech \u2018Entreaties,\u2019 GOP<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/05\/the-gop-must-resist-big-techs-lobbying-efforts-to-save-face-with-conservatives\/\">The Federalist\u2019s Rachel Bovard reminds<\/a> Republicans, who now control the House, to enter discussions with Big Tech CEOs with \u201ceyes wide open,\u201d as their lobbyists offer \u201cthe sweetest of entreaties.\u201d Apple\u2019s future \u201cis likely tied to how effectively\u201d the corporation\u2019s top brass can \u201ccozy up to the new sheriffs in town,\u201d as it faces \u201cthe specter of at least one antitrust bill that could curb its monopolistic practices.\u201d Yet Apple\u2019s removal of conservative social-media platform Parler from its app store, its lobbying against a bill \u201cthat would have effectively prohibited American companies from using slaves to make products\u201d and its kowtowing to the Chinese government suggests Republicans should not be \u201ceasily swooned\u201d by \u201cminor pleasantries.\u201d GOP voters \u201care watching closely\u201d for how Washington deals with Big Tech and will punish the party \u201cin the public square and at the ballot box for lacking a backbone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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