This should be a blaring wake-up call about the soft power of foreign meddling in Western politics through manufacturing chain leverage. The same company that placed half its hardware business under PRC jurisdiction, also wants to be a major media platform in the US, with editorial control over civic debate occurring within the US. That's common-sense unacceptable.<p>edit: There was also extensive discussion about this back in 2021 (the idea of China pressuring Apple censorship in the US):<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29482351">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29482351</a> (<i>"Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016"</i>)