Apple Stands Firm Amid Pressure To Remove NRA TV

By Tom Knighton

These days, it’s easy to think of tech companies as the bad guys. They’ve been giving us tons of reasons to think of them that way. From Facebook selling data to YouTube cracking down on gun videos while leaving bomb-making videos alone, there’s been plenty to be annoyed about.

However, it seems one tech company is making a right call, and that’s by not caving to anti-Second Amendment hysteria.

Apple CEO Tim Cook stood by his company’s decision to keep the National Rifle Association’s app available to the public in their App Store.

Speaking with Recode’s Kara Swisher and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes last week, Cook said, “We don’t want to take a view that throttles the public discourse on something,” going on to argue that “Public discourse is an important part of democracy.”

While admitting he wasn’t a fan of the NRA’s “tactics or positions” Cook said it was important for the public to hear their point of view.

In recent months, the group’s media arm, NRA TV, has come under fire from gun control organizations who have been applying public pressure to a host of streaming services in an effort to curb …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms