Bits where he criticized Donald Trump and the film industry were cut.
  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    139·
    11 months ago

    They attempted to censor him, by removing part of his speech from the teleprompter. He got his phone out and read it from there instead.

    • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
      661·
      11 months ago

      Wow that’s so insanely stupid of Apple. Think he wouldnt notice?

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        202·
        11 months ago

        Their claim is that they were using an older draft.

        • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

          Actually it’s the opposite. They’re claiming he hadn’t received/approved the newest draft, which is an insane justification when you think about it, like ‘we didn’t realize that he hadn’t approved the changes the we independently made to his speech’

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    632·
    11 months ago

    Apple has now gotten caught for doing this to Jon Stewart and now Robert De Niro in a month’s time. Not great.

    Kind of a bummer, AppleTV+ actually has really good content now, and this makes me not want to support it.

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      24·
      11 months ago

      Almost makes someone want to setup a Jellyfin/Plex server with radarr, sonarr and a VPN like AirVPN, then sail the high seas and grab all the easily acquired AppleTV content floating around out there to watch without financially supporting the company, but that’d be wrong.

        • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          I’m no fan of Apple, but a lot of their new shows are pretty decent like Silo, Invasion, Slow Horses, Ted Lasso, For All Mankind, Severance, Foundation, etc. I suppose it’s all subjective but I think they’re worth the HDD space.

  • NOSin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4222·
    11 months ago

    I don’t want to give credit to Apple, but let’s not forget that De Niro is anti vax, among others bullshit he have spewed over the years

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    234·
    11 months ago

    Shame on Apple and the production company. Deniro is a badass for overriding and calling them out.

    • long_chicken_boat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      yeah, I do not agree with a lot of the guy’s opinions, but I respect that instead of playing ball with Apple he took his phone and read his own speech.

      • Haha@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        I see few comments shitting on de Niro for being an anti vaxxer as if it holds a weight in this argument… read some of those comments too.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    alleges that multiple versions of the speech had been created, and that both Apple and the filmmakers were unaware that De Niro had not approved the final draft.

    What a lame excuse LOL that’s just another description for censorship by some clueless interns. And I’m sure they are going to come up with new, multiple versions of lame excuses during the next days.

    They should rather take responsibility for their malpractice! Lo and behold: the actor himself has no problem with taking responsibility for his own speech.

  • modifier@lemmy.caEnglish
    199·
    11 months ago

    Fuck apple but I am skeptical of an 80 year old antivaxxer.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    71·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Robert De Niro slammed Apple and the Gotham Film & Media Institute this week after claiming his speech for the Gotham Awards had been censored — allegedly by an Apple employee just minutes before the show started, according to Variety’s sources — to remove criticisms about Donald Trump and the entertainment industry.

    The actor appeared onstage at the ceremony on Monday night for the presentation of the Gotham Historical Icon and Creator Tribute to Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon, a film distributed by Apple that focuses on a series of murders targeting the Osage people in Oklahoma during the 1920s after oil was discovered on tribal land.

    According to Variety’s sources, an edited version of the speech was uploaded to the teleprompter just minutes before the Gotham Awards kicked off, by a woman who identified herself as an Apple employee, in response to “feedback from the filmmaking team that wanted the actor’s remarks to be centered on the movie.” Variety also reports that the teleprompter company was emailed a revised speech script by two Apple employees that evening, and that De Niro was not aware of the changes.

    Variety reports that De Niro’s accusations regarding censorship have been denied by “a source close to the film,” who instead claims the incident was a miscommunication.

    The insider alleges that multiple versions of the speech had been created, and that both Apple and the filmmakers were unaware that De Niro had not approved the final draft.

    De Niro’s accusations of censorship come just weeks after reports that Jon Stewart’s show on Apple TV Plus, The Problem With Jon Stewart, was ended due to “creative differences” related to topics on China and artificial intelligence.

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    • jaschen@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      “multiple version of the script?!?!” If this was the wrong version uploaded, De Niro would have known it was the wrong version uploaded since he would have known about this version. Unless of course he wasn’t involved in multiple revisions.

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.caEnglish
    73·
    11 months ago

    And now that I’ve seen this article, I’ve watched a clip for a broadcast I normally wouldn’t give a rat’s bottom about. Thanks Apple!