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How is Apple not ethical? As far as Netflix, one might explore their culture a bit before giving them a pass. [1]

[1] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/netflix-settles-ex...




Besides the working conditions at contracted factories?

One could make the argument that advertising at and subsequently locking someone into the walled-garden ecosystem is unethical because you are artificially inflating the consumers' opportunity costs. Some would look at that and call it a milder form of price-gouging.

It's a really weak argument compared to literal human rights abuses, but we're talking about ethics here, which is necessarily broad.


There is absolutely zero evidence in that article. A lawsuit is not an indication of guilt by itself, particularly when the plaintiff was recently terminated.




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