FCC Leaks of Apple products, Possibly politically motivated?

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Buntschwalbe

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Disclaimer: This is highly speculative. I'm not trying to make up any conspiracy, but just wondering and interested in your opinions on this topic.

Early this week found out, that the FCC leaked infos about apple products that will launch in the future. With Brendan Carr as the chair of the FCC and the whole saga suspending Jimmy Kimmel before, i already got a bit suspicious about these apple leaks. Was this a sheer accident or a move to force apple political complacency on certain subjects?

Now later, the same week we find out, apple is deciding to deplatform an app, that was a thorn in the side of the us government.

So, this could be a just a coincidence, or is there any causality between those two subjects?
What's your take on this?
 
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Buntschwalbe said:
Disclaimer: This is highly speculative. I'm not trying to make up any conspiracy, but just wondering and interested in your opinions on this topic.

Early this week found out, that the FCC leaked infos about apple products that will launch in the future. With Brendan Carr as the chair of the FCC and the whole saga suspending Jimmy Kimmel before, i already got a bit suspicious about these apple leaks. Was this a sheer accident or a move to force apple political complacency on certain subjects?

Now later, the same week we find out, apple is deciding to deplatform an app, that was a thorn in the side of the us government.

So, this could be a just a coincidence, or is there any causality between those two subjects?
What's your take on this?
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My guess is no, but it’s not outside the realm of possibility. The more likely threat is tariffs and other “lawfare” threats would be more in keeping with their MO. Apple also did the same for China wrt HK protests. I would imagine it didn’t take a lot of pressure. How much it would take to get Apple to cave on privacy is a question I asked in the UK thread.
 
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Nope. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by mere incompetence.
 
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Cmaier said:
Nope. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by mere incompetence.
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A classic aphorism that held true since coined, upended (as many things) by the current US administration. Malice is the point for them.

That said, this seems like too small a hit. They swing for the fences, when they can remember where they put the bat.
 
NotEntirelyConfused said:
A classic aphorism that held true since coined, upended (as many things) by the current US administration. Malice is the point for them.

That said, this seems like too small a hit. They swing for the fences, when they can remember where they put the bat.
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...interestingly, while I knew the current name ("Hanlon's Razor") and about Heinlein's version (it should really be named for him, it's classic Heinlein), when I went to look for the date it was first written as Hanlon's Razor it turns out that it goes back way further. Goethe wrote it in the 1700s and it's also attributed to Napoleon.
 
NotEntirelyConfused said:
...interestingly, while I knew the current name ("Hanlon's Razor") and about Heinlein's version (it should really be named for him, it's classic Heinlein), when I went to look for the date it was first written as Hanlon's Razor it turns out that it goes back way further. Goethe wrote it in the 1700s and it's also attributed to Napoleon.
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I know it from Heinlein. :-) I have all his books. In some case several editions. When I was a kid working in NY I’d go to walden books across the street at lunch and buy ‘em up.
 
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