[filoleg]

> If Apple the production company is embroiled in a series of high profile censorship missteps then it DEFINITELY impacts Apple the tech company.

Would you say that a controversy around something as high-profile as a Spidermman movie production have any impact on Sony the tech company, rather than just Sony Pictures Studios? Or, an even better example, would that be attributable to Sony the tech company in any way? Is it Kenichiro Yoshida (the current CEO) or the high-up Sony corporate pulling the strings whenever there is a conflict on a movie set of Sony Pictures Studios?

> The opaque nature of how this decision was made, the opaque nature of how any decision at Apple gets made, is also a contributing factor.

It is a movie production. It is a specific movie production crew having an argument with an actor working on the same movie over whether he approved the final draft of his speech or not. It wasn’t something coming from Apple the tech company (unless there is any evidence to the contrary, which I am yet to see).

Also, De Niro read his original unedited speech anyway, it was broadcasted just fine, and he faced no consequences for it (as he shouldn’t have). This kind of tells that none of this was about censorship and more of just about the movie production team disagreement over who approved which edit.