How is this any different from networks firing hosts / pulling content because sponsors threaten to pull their ads?

I'm fully on the "fuck corps that cave to China's childish demands" side. I'm still boycotting Blizzard after the Free HK scandal.

But I think it's their choice to capitulate for access to China's market, and it's my choice to stop doing business with them as a result. I don't think it's the government's place to essentially tell a company they can't do business in China, unless it's literally a national security thing like electronics with Spyware / backdoors.

I'll make the "China bad" post. There are very few governments with an ego as fragile as China's. It barely even makes sense since they have the weight and soft power to lead by example, or develop healthy ties with the rest of the world. But they just. Don't. It really gives the impression that all is not well within their borders.

They are paid very handsomely to not wake up. Things need to change.

Apple would no doubt prefer to have its cake and eat it too—keep the show and its revenue without facing retaliation from the CCP. If Congress gives them a plausible excuse to do that, why wouldn’t they?