Apple Seemingly Censors UltraFine 5K Monitor Reviews After Poor Feedback (thenextweb.com)

It appears Apple is filtering and censoring bad reviews of the LG's UltraFine 5K display. From a report on The Next Web: The deletion was first spotted by a Reddit user four days ago. Though it's possible the reviews were removed for some other reason, at first glance, it looks like censorship. It's not a good look for the company. Apple said it was getting out of the monitor business, and instead chose to work more closely with third-party partners, heavily featuring LG's 5K and 4K UltraFine displays at its recent MacBook Pro unveiling. But then the monitor received multiple negative reviews from users who were experiencing issues such as the screen failing to wake up from sleep. The Reddit post also points out that: "In many cases, attempts to fix the problem through physical reconnection[sic] of the monitor, or manual restarts, have caused the attached Mac to crash, become otherwise unresponsive, or develop problems with the touch bar (where equipped)."

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Amazon's influence?

[AmiMoJo]

It's interesting that companies are criticised for removing negative reviews now. Back in the day that was the norm, you never saw bad reviews on the sites selling you the product. Like the 5 star reviews printed on adverts in magazines and in movie trailers, people just assumed by default that they were either selecting the most positive ones or just fabricating them entirely.

Then Amazon came along and didn't delete negative reviews. They became more trusted for that reason. Now people get upset when vendors do this, even though it's actually pretty common still.

Being Reddit it's tempting to just write this off as Free Speech Warrior nonsense, but I think for once there is more to it than that.