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U.S. Lawmakers Call Apple's Move to Remove HKMap Live App 'Deeply Concerning'
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here ya go.
have no idea what you are even on about, are you talking about cops in the state shooting for far less?
check your logical reasoning at the door please.
This, from the same government that complains that some apps show police speed traps & that Apple should hand over encrypted iMessages or unlock tools for people’s phones.
Right, an exceptional human being, brought out by himself among the rest, who neither bought any chinese, indian, thailand, indonesian, etc made goods "for years". Look, being real about it, doesn't make me any less hypocrite either.
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It's ok. Don't stress over it. This is a philosophical thread, not a reality thread.
I don't stress over things like this, but I do wonder how some people get through life with the level of ignorance shown in certain posts in this thread. I guess they spent too much time in their safe place and not enough time in the real world.
What law was Apple breaking by selling the app? Any app can be used at some point to break a law. That doesn’t mean selling the app was breaking any laws and I do believe a local HK official said as much.
Also that wasn’t the sole purpose of the app. That may be what Tim’s Beijing handlers told him. But other people were reportedly relying on the app to AVOID trouble. Plenty of people needed to go to work and school and didn’t want to get caught up in the chaos and used the app to find out spots to avoid according to people in HK, not Beijing.
Tim pulled the app. Fine. But he should have not equivocated about why in an internal memo to his employees.
Really? If a certain group of old white men believed this, then the United States wouldn't even exist...
My suggestion isn't exclusively about the practical workarounds to unavailable apps. Nor is it limited to the immediate situation. It is about Apple avoiding the PR backlash that its censorship standards and political kowtowing invite. It's understandable if Apple wants to disallow controversial and tasteless apps from its own app store if their app store wasn't the only means to acquire and install those apps. Instead, the current arrangement places the burden on Apple to decide which user liberties and content they respect. Allowing users to side load apps without Apple's involvement would make Apple's editorial policies inconsequential. MacOS doesn't have the same limitations. Why does iOS have these limitations? Is there something about iOS or mobile computing that is inherently fragile, vulnerable, or conversely abusable?
Ultimately, we know that no app or other Internet tool is effective if the authorities hack it, block domains, or black out Internet services. The Arab Spring uprising illustrated this. So Apple is unnecessarily making itself a political scapegoat in these matters when all it wants to do is sell its Disneyesque products.
Really? Did the founding fathers of the US vandalized local business properties of their own people and hurt their own innocent citizens?
I've been following the NBA story. I don't understand. From comments of similar news else, why Chinese people from China seems to love China, and anyone else seems anti China? Fascinating really.
I guess bias works on both sides and it works.
I guess bias works on both sides and it works.
Twitter and Facebook should be banned. But not for the reasons you mentioned, which are nonsense as their primary purpose was not evil in nature.
China has become more totalitarian in things like social score, consolidation of power under a single person, massively expanded surveillance in both terms of complexity and ubiquity, and implementing the largest internment camps in the world all point towards totalitarianism.
The real issue is increasingly clear. China’s communist party is not compatible with democracy.
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This is such a complex issue. It’s funny how we had no problem with using China and Chinese people in the resources to produce products. But now we have a problem with them asking us to not sell them a app.
As Americans, we’ve always put profit above principles and morals. I guess we have to pick our poison. Are we a government and company that stands up for principles? Or are we a government company that stands up for profits? I don’t know if you can have it both ways.
As Americans, we’ve always put profit above principles and morals. I guess we have to pick our poison. Are we a government and company that stands up for principles? Or are we a government company that stands up for profits? I don’t know if you can have it both ways.
While politicians should stay out of it, they are 100% correct. HKMap shouldn't have been removed. It is no different from Waze.
as much as I despise AOC, and have warmed up to Cruz over the years (despite thinking he was a totally bozo when he spitefully went to RNC to not endorse their candidate ... because ego / butt hurt), I love bipartisan movements like this. I hope this only continues.
People in general fundamentally disagree about a few things, vehemently, like the direction we should take as a country -- but I think on a lot of levels both sides (not necessarily those players but supporters of the sides) can find commonality even in the most divisive times
People in general fundamentally disagree about a few things, vehemently, like the direction we should take as a country -- but I think on a lot of levels both sides (not necessarily those players but supporters of the sides) can find commonality even in the most divisive times
That was already clear 30 years ago. Both China and the United States are willing to ignore governmental systems that they don't agree with in order to do trade and business. If Apple decided to defy the Chinese government and had their operations shut down in the country, other American companies would still do business there and Huawei, Xiaomi etc. would still be trying to sell things in the U.S.
It’s more about what “their perception of the real world“ is. We are so divided today that the term “reality” is in itself not reality.
How about our lawmakers take care of law-related things and fix problems with our government before going around worrying about what companies do with apps.
I wonder how those Lawmakers feel about apps reporting police locations in the US. Big move to remove police location from Waze which Google owns. US Lawmakers often are hypocrites with double standards
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Not exactly true because if interest was that of shareholders their dividends would not be so low for such a highly profitable company
Thats my general feeling too, but replace China with USA.
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American's think it's wrong - yet imagine if Hawaii decided they were sick of Trump and wanted to become independent. Trump would have water cannons down there ASAP and if there was an app showing them where police where he'd be wanting it banned instantly.
I'm pretty sure most sane people are completely critical of both. It's the nutty right wing religious republicans which have bizarre hypocritical views.
