Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, was on NPR just the other day celebrating a historic photo of Earth taken by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972 as they made humanity’s ultimate trip to the moon. Starr died this year, in September, at age 76. Not one to go out quietly, Starr joined the Trump legal team in 2020 to defend the president in his U.S. Equally damning is Starr’s role in the Baylor University scandal in which university officials-Starr was president and chancellor at the time-mishandled more than a dozen allegations from women of sexual assault at the hands of members of the school’s football team.
Clinton was acquitted and, to Starr’s credit and undoubtedly to the chagrin of Clinton haters everywhere, he expressed regret for his role in the investigation. House’s impeachment of President Clinton for perjury and the cover-up of his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. In 1998, the Starr Report would lead to the U.S. In 1994, Starr, a Duke Law School graduate, was appointed by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to investigate the Whitewater scandal, which right-wingers hoped would criminally implicate Bill and Hillary Clinton in the suicide of White House counsel Vincent Foster or, hell, anything for that matter. We’re laying all of this squarely at the feet of Apple CEO and Duke business school graduate Tim Cook, who’s fighting Epic tooth and nail and who’s aiding Chinese censorship at the same time as he’s giving DC speeches about Apple’s commitment to running the App Store in ways that promote human rights, civil liberties, and privacy.
Then there are the reports of similar shenanigans in China, where Apple’s App Store, as reported by Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr, is all too happy to acquiesce to requests to censor apps at the behest of China’s Communist Party in ways that could be endangering Chinese citizens. First of all, there’s the ongoing antitrust lawsuit between Apple and Epic Games, where local tech star Epic, rightfully in our mind, is claiming Apple’s App Store is functioning as a veritable monopoly by refusing to sell Epic products, such as popular video game Fortnite, on its platform without taking a massive 30 percent commission. Look, we all love Apple, and Apple loves us (read: our money), but Apple’s been acting atrociously of late.
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