Never Forget How Eagerly Apple And Google Coddled Fascism

Earlier this week I wrote about the tech press' hagiography of outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook, and the media's uncanny ability to downplay or ignore his legacy of boring products and enthusiastic coddling of violent global autocrats. Offhandedly I threw out the question of whether Apple's new CEO John Ternus would demonstrate something more concretely resembling a backbone when it comes to authoritarian appeasement.Yeah, well, about that. Last week you may have seen (good for you if you didn't!) that our mad combover king tried to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" as part of his pointless and chaotic trade war with Canada. It's pretty typical Trump: thoughtless, chaotic trolling unconcerned with any real world impact to actual human beings.Americans overwhelmingly (64%) think renaming the lake is stupid. Even many of the Republicans who live on the lake shore and have to deal with the real-world impact think it's stupid, offensive (the lake name has ancient Iroquoian roots), and…