[TBP]

Privacy is central to liberty, so we need the government to regulate it. Does that even make sense?

[Vendome]

Idiot...

[NutsOnYew]

Government needs to step in and regulate privacy

That is a terrifying idea.

[House Atreides]

Privacy is central to liberty, so we need the government to regulate it. Does that even make sense?
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I think his meaning is that the government needs to do more to regulate/prevent THE INVASIONS OF PRIVACY that many tech companies currently engage in.

[BTerclinger]

Cadillac Commie Cook wants the U.S. to be like China, where he just gave them the keys to Apple's China icloud, effectively sodomizing 130 million Chinese Apple customers, letting their govt read their phones.

All hail our future Chinese masters, say their millionaire/ billionaire underling slave-masters:

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos share a laugh. Tencent CEO Pony Ma [Huateng] stands in between.

According to the official Tencent website, Ma is a deputy to the 5th Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress and serves in the 12th National People’s Congress.

Because of Tencent’s dominance of the social network and instant messaging markets in China, Ma Huateng’ relationship with the Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly come under scrutiny... Speaking of censorship at a tech conference in Singapore, Ma was quoted as saying "Lots of people think they can speak out and that they can be irresponsible. I think that's wrong […] We are a great supporter of the government in terms of the information security. We try to have a better management and control of the Internet”."

[kaintucky]

didn’t roe v wade give us the “right to privacy”?

[cpdiii]

Privacy is central to liberty, so we need the government to regulate it. Does that even make sense?

Absolutely not! Privacy is private and thus if regulated it is no longer private.

It is odd that the Captains of private enterprise such as Cook, Buffet, Gates and the many foundations such as the Ford Foundation are now the left wing liberal elite. One would think people such as they would be the bastions of a free and open society. They are not and the reason is quite simple.

Men and women at the very top want for nothing. They fly in Gulfstream Jets between their homes of great opulence. Their friends are those that shape the world. They attend meetings with each other to chart the destiny of the world as they see fit.

As they want for nothing the only aphrodisiac left is raw power. Thus they gravitate to left to gather this raw power over the world. This is the aphrodisiac of old men and young men alike. The young men also have their ladies of great beauty. The old men also, but they by and large are but window dressing for their ego.

Nothing has changed since we came out of caves thousands of years ago with a club in our hands, with the exception of our ability to kill each other with great efficiency. It is estimated that socialism via communism, nazis, the Chinese revolution, Cambodia etc has killed in excess of 100 million people for political power. Beware the left. They are genocidal.

[a fool in paradise]

how does i-Apple treat privacy when the Chinese Communist government comes knocking?

[dfwgator]

He’s asking the fox to guard the henhouse.

[Swordmaker]

Apple CEO' worried about the privacy abuses from the other Tech Giants, says it may be time for government regulation to assure consumer privacy. BAD IDEA, TIM! The BIG problem is once you grant the government the power to assure privacy, you grant the government the power to define privacy. That may not be OUR idea of privacy. . . and one-size of privacy cannot fit all people, businesses, and situations. Just extend political freedom of speech to the social media platforms. —PING!

Apple CEO has a bad idea Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[golux]

[veracious]

Shut this creature up.

[Shethink13]

I’ve got an idea. How about you techie giants stop selling your customers’ private info to the highest bidders.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Privacy is central to liberty, so we need the government to regulate it. Does that even make sense?

We may indeed need to pass laws enforcing privacy rights, since tech companies like Facebook and Google build entire business models on the abrogation of our privacy. Cook has been a harsh critic of Facebook's privacy invasions and he is on the right side of this.

[TheNext]

No regulation, just jail the perps.

Jail Tim Cook and Zuckerberg for wire fraud.

[BuffaloJack]

Less government and regulation is always preferred.
The USA isn’t China and we certainly don’t want government social monitors.