The Title Is Hilarious

Matt Stoller just wrote this and the title made me laugh and laugh and laugh... 'Apple F$@ks Around with Court Order, Finds Out'. The introductory lead to the story is also funny:

"It's our F$@KING STORE." Apple decided not to obey a court order telling it to open its app store to Fortnite. Yesterday Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers smacked them down, backed up by an appeals court.

As the article says, it's not really that Judge Gonzalez Rogers has been stern with and judged against Apple, at least up until recently. Apple's gotten away with lots. However, the last judgment basically made Apple open their App store to Fortnite (Epic Games) and other App developers. And Apple wouldn't do it... for Fortnite - the other app developers got app store access right away.

From this older, but also good, article: Apple vs Epic Games vs The People

We have all heard recently about how Google has instituted policies, allegedly to counter "fake news", suppressing results of various non-mainstream website in their search results. This has resulted in significantly less traffic and therefore less revenue for many sites which we in our community look to for news sources. So, when I had a bit of free time the other day, I set out to do an experiment, to test this hypothesis and observe Google's search results censoring in action.