Posted on 06/02/2020 8:05:57 AM PDT by Swordmaker
On Tuesday, Apple Music canceled the radio schedule for Beats 1 radio to support “Blackout Tuesday,” suggesting that listeners tune in to a “”Blackout Tuesday” radio stream.
On launching Apple Music, users see a message that replaces the normal “For You,” “Browse,” and “Radio” sections. The page includes a “Listen Together” button that links to the aforementioned station.
In steadfast support of the Black voices that define music, creativity, and culture, we use ours. This moment calls upon us all to speak and act against racism and injustice of all kinds. We stand in solidarity with Black communities everywhere. #TheShowMustBePaused #BlackLivesMatter
Apple Music is searchable, but users cannot see the usual displays and links to new releases, featured videos, featured playlists, etc.
MacDailyNews Take:While we understand the sentiment, we’d prefer there were a way for users to be able to access the normal “For You,” “Browse,” and “Radio” sections if they desire, since they are paying for the service – the full service, with full functionality – not a subset of what Apple wants subscribers to be able to do, see, and hear.
Am I sure? Nobody but the cops knows. But everyone is projecting racism into this situation. If the cops admit it I’ll change my mind obviously.
Or, “Blacks can’t be racist because they don’t have any power.”Which is it????
These people think they can have more prosperity and Venezuela-style government simultaneously.
But the reality is that the more Democrat the government, the more prosperity of the minions of government. And even that is true only in the (very) short run.
Socialism is cynical towards productive society. The conceit that productive society can organized by people who lust for power has been tried and found wanting as many - far too many - times as it has been tested. Productive society is only organized by people whose first objective is productivity as defined by society.
“Productivity” as defined by government is simply power. Neither more nor less.
Touche
Think maybe i got ONE virus once around 10 years ago on my PC.
I guess it really depends on the intellect of the user.
I imagine Apple is better with dealing in that way.
I think it may depend a lot on what links you visit or don't visit. Maybe we are a little more careful about which emails we open or respond to.
yea....back in the day when i was foolish enough to offer to fix a friend or relatives PC and then became their unwilling de facto weekly free PC tech for life i’ve learned how naive many PC users really are when it comes to surfing the web.
I myself learned way back in the late 90’s what was obvious BS or not...many others apparently cannot comprehend that concept.
Because there are over 10 of them to 1 of the the other..
Interestingly life goes on whether we approve or not. People are going to be opinionated as long as we are free. Hope that doesn't change but the older I get the more I think it likely will become totalitarian.
Where is this? I opened Apple Music on multiple devices yesterday (Tuesday) and never saw that message.... I feel left out!
Because theft of music via copyright violation is a morally-acceptable alternative? Nice. I sure hope you don’t ever have an original or creative idea that might be taken from you.
I have SirrusXM in my new RAM 1500 - they called several Conservative personalities from a couple of Conservative talk channels to the carpet this week about their conservative statements on these riots and such. So - are they any better?
Perhaps the blowback was too overwhelming?
Not sure. I saw this blowup here on FR... but saw very little out in the “wild”. But the first post led me to go check it out... and nope. My portal showed no signs. What’s interesting - the “suggested for you” section almost always is filled wtih Afro-centric artists and albums. Not sure why.
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