[flukus]

Unfortunately the concept of a principled stance seems to be a casualty of the current political polarization. It will come back to bite everyone on the left/progressive side of politics too because companies want to avoid being linked to any sort of controversy no matter what the position is and the left/progressives have lost any advantage in tech saviness.

A recent (local to Australia example) was this woman fired over pro-abortion tweets (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-30/cricket-australia-sack...). The same people cheering about someone getting fired for anti-ssm tweets were up in arms about this.

That said I also agree that apple should be able to do business (or not) with however they like, the problem is the level of control we gave them in the first place. Everyone publishing and subscribing to iTunes is responsible for this. Site's like InfoWars especially should have seen this coming.