[nickcarraway]

Apple will protect dead killers in the U.S., but will offer up live freedom fighters in China.

[Rashputin]

All that matters to them is making a PR gain out of this. They don't give a rat's patoot about protecting individual privacy. They do care very much about keeping their profit margins high, though, and catering to China while "standing up" to the FBI is exactly the sort of shell game Apple has always excelled at.

The government, according to Cook, has every right to force you to bake a cake for queers who want a "wedding cake", but no right to demand that Apple access the data in a phone used by murderous terrorists after the terrorists are dead and gone.

The only people they're providing privacy protection for are the friends and contacts of the terrorists, not anyone else, not the public at large.

Wait until someone commits a "hate crime" against some fudge packer and has an iPhone the prosecutor doesn't have a way to unlock. Apple will fall all over themselves to provide any assistance they can in order to prosecute whoever dares to insult fudge packers individually or as a group.

[Swordmaker]

Apple will protect dead killers in the U.S., but will offer up live freedom fighters in China.

PROOF of your ridiculous accusation? None.