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Robert De Niro accuses Apple of censoring awards speech (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“Oops! We aCciDeNtLy cut out the part that might cause insurrection supporters to not watch our award show! Aww shucks our mistake increased our ratings.”

It's not a televised. It's an obscure awards show that almost nobody saw.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So.. the kind of situation where Apple would want more viewers.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Apple did not produce or distribute the event. I think they'd be perfectly content with zero viewers. CODA won two Gotham Awards, including Troy Kotsur for best supporting actor. Did Apple talk about it then? No. What about when CODA won big at the Oscars? Apple dedicated two long paragraphs of the press release to talking about the other awards CODA won but the Gotham Awards are so irrelevant that they didn't even get a single throwaway mention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

CODA is irrelevant here.

Apple admitted they made a mistake with the teleprompter.

We can only speculate why it happened.

Considering the context of what was removed I doubt it was a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Apple admitted they made a mistake with the teleprompter. We can only speculate why it happened.

We don't have any statement from Apple. "A source close to the film" said it was a mix-up with different versions of the draft and that Apple didn't know De Niro hadn't signed off on that one as the final version. The source anonymous to us, but not to Variety, and they judged the person credible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

“Apple didn't know De Niro hadn't signed off on that one as the final version”

Then they are at fault for not verifying they are putting the right words on the teleprompter