Apple can stop McCarthyist viewpoint discrimination, but will it?

Published December 10, 2019 12:00am ET



Is Apple, at last, succumbing to the woke mob’s clamor for intellectual conformity?

It was Apple, after all, that famously ran an ad during the 1984 Super Bowl taking full advantage of the resonances of that fabled year. The ad, itself called 1984, drew heavily from the imagery and dire warnings of George Orwell’s novel of the same name. In it, a strong, colorful young lady with a mallet — the nonconforming free thinker — runs through rows of grey worker drones in lockstep and shatters the Big Brother screen to which those benighted, defeated hordes mutely attended.

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