No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her

The headline and article text make this confusing, but I&#x27;m pretty sure that Stewart is saying that Apple <i>did</i> block him from having her on the podcast that they sponsored, not that Apple expressed any opinion at all about him having her on the Daily Show.<p>This is part of Apple&#x27;s general heavy-handedness which caused him to quit, not an attempt to block Khan in other outlets.

The interesting or perhaps scary question is how many times are news hosts told to drop a topic&#x2F;story and they go along with it and the public never even knows a topic was dropped?<p>It&#x27;s worth asking how we can make our systems safer against large corporations shady influence.

This really isn&#x27;t that surprising. The FAANGs, including Apple, have committed serious anti-trust violations especially their hoarding of talent during the 0% interest rate years to prevent them from starting competitors then freezing hiring and laying off en masse once the interest rates started rising. They really should have to pay damages in the 6 to 7 figure range to each developer who&#x27;s been looking for work in the mid 2022 to present tech recession that they caused via their monopoly power.

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These comments make it sound like Jon Stewart himself wields no power. He commands an audience he can take to any platform he wants. It just looks like he took a liking to the pot of money Apple put in front of him.You can&#x27;t really make the argument that Apple is the only game in town for Jon Stewart.<p>Free speech laws protect against government supression of speech, not corporations.

Such a nice interview though. It&#x27;s cool that something like this is happening on a mainstream platform like Jon Stwarts Daily Show

Shocking. It was previously reported that Apple wouldn&#x27;t let him talk about China or AI and it turns out that the AI segment was related to antitrust and Lina Khan.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;19&#x2F;business&#x2F;media&#x2F;jon-stewart-the-problem-ends.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;10&#x2F;19&#x2F;business&#x2F;media&#x2F;jon-stewar...</a><p>&gt; Mr. Stewart told members of his staff on Thursday that potential show topics related to China and artificial intelligence were causing concern among Apple executives

Meawhile it&#x27;s Apple&#x27;s &quot;competitors&quot; that are in the FTC&#x27;s crosshairs. Arguably that makes this just a little more interesting. To be blunt, in keeping Khan off a podcast with a large audience, Apple appears to be doing <i>someone else</i> a favour.

Shouldn&#x27;t the title say &#x27;Apple blocked her&#x27;<p>They did succeed in pressuring the podcast to not have her on.

Apple censoring dissenntjng opinions is bad enough, imagine how bad it could get if the congress got its wish to be able to censor platforms altogether?<p>He should have asked her opinion about that.

Is there any doubt in the world that his current employer - the Redstone family, also have limits on what can be discussed and how on their channels?

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Publishers&#x2F;sponsors having input into the message is common as dirt. Just famous names this time.

I&#x27;m shocked, SHOCKED, that Apple is super aggressively swinging their hammer to protect their brand.<p>During a technical talk at a nieche conference, a speaker had an apple logo on a slide, along other logos, to illustrate devices.<p>An Apple employee stood up and shut down the whole presentation, demanding that the presenter, RIGHT NOW, edit the slides to remove the apple logo, or he would not &quot;let&quot; the presentation continue.<p>Representatives from other companies did not care about their logo also being up there.

Neoliberalism&#x2F;anarcocapitalism has stoned these corporations, I hope it has arrived the day that we start putting them back in line by punishing well these monopolistic practices, anti unions strategies, stock dumping and buybacks, fiscal havens, mass layoffs, etc. it has gone out of hand. Companies can’t just leech out of general population undisturbed

Apple don&#x27;t need to invade your privacy when they already control your whole world.

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