[tomohawk]

As another reminder to everyone: free speech is a cherished value.

There is an expectation on everyone's part to uphold these values. To practice tolerance. To pull together.

By not upholding these values, Apple is stating that they disagree with free speech. They are exercising intolerance. They are saying it is better to create separate little bubbles to exist in.

[pteredactyl]

Exactly. I'm tired of the 'you stupid idiot, <tech company> is not the government' argument.

Yes they're not the US government. But fortunately, the US government is the gold standard of free speech around the world.

If companies do not wish to uphold that standard, they'll probably suffer. Like FB and Twitter did in the stock market last week.

[jhayward]

> By not upholding these values, Apple is stating that they disagree with free speech

No they are emphatically not, because Jone's screeds are not intended to be free speech as cherished by society.

They are acknowledging that society's norms can be weaponized against itself by those bent on power and destruction, and that tolerance of intolerance is incompatible with continued existence of the norms of free speech and tolerance. [1]

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