Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes
All the arguments about what company is most evil entirely miss the point.<p>You don&#x27;t make a decision on a specific issue based on what company you like more, you base it on who is right on the specific issue.<p>From an ethical perspective that&#x27;s what having a codified rule of laws is all about. Everyone get&#x27;s the same rules no matter how much you like them. You don&#x27;t arbitrarily punish people for doing things you don&#x27;t like by denying them unrelated things that they are entitled to unless you go in front of a judge and get a judge to order that as a punishment for doing the thing you don&#x27;t like.<p>From a entirely practical and short term perspective these decisions do not just impact the companies you don&#x27;t like, they also impact everyone else because our legal system puts a very heavy weight on precedent.<p>I&#x27;m strongly reminded of the quote &quot;Freedom of speech doesn&#x27;t protect speech you like; it protects speech you don&#x27;t like.&quot; (though obviously in this case it is applied to justice in general instead of speech in particular).