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by onecooldev24 2877 days ago
Apple is not a private entity, its publicly traded company that has a monopoly.
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> Apple is not a private entity

Another case of terrible economic nomenclature. Apple is a public private sector company.

Apple is in the private sector [1] of the economy, i.e. it "is not controlled by the State." This distinction is important to Constitutional law, since the First Amendment does not restrict the private sector; it restricts the state (also known as the public sector [2]).

Apple is a publicly-held corporation, as opposed to a privately-held one like Uber, but that's less relevant to this discussion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_sector

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sector

Apple does not have a monopoly on podcast indexing and it won’t become true no matter how many times you repeat it.