Posted on 11/29/2022 11:38:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
With China's communist oligarchs tightening their grip on power as anti-COVID lockdown protests erupt across that country, who should step in to help the detested regime but wokester Apple, one of the most virtue-signally of all companies in the Silicon Valley.
According to a report in Quartz, via Yahoo! Finance:
Anti-government protests flared in several Chinese cities and on college campuses over the weekend. But the country’s most widespread show of public dissent in decades will have to manage without a crucial communication tool, because Apple restricted its use in China earlier this month.
AirDrop, the file-sharing feature on iPhones and other Apple devices, has helped protestors in many authoritarian countries evade censorship. That’s because AirDrop relies on direct connections between phones, forming a local network of devices that don’t need the internet to communicate. People can opt into receiving AirDrops from anyone else with an iPhone nearby.
This isn't their first China rodeo, either. Quartz notes:
Apple has repeatedly helped China control dissent, mostly by removing apps that protestors have used to coordinate, communicate, or gather information. (Quartz’s iOS app was removed by Apple, at China’s request, at the height of the 2019 protests in Hong Kong.) By hobbling the functionality of AirDrop in China, Apple is once again coming to the government’s aid.
So it's not enough for Apple to stay silent, the way all the celebrities with a cash stream coming from China are doing. Apple is actively helping the regime repress the protestors by making apps unavailable to them which are available to everyone else. That's censorship.
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Their excuse is that soon they will do this to everyone, so there’s nothing to see here, move along, but that doesn’t hold much water. Why they did it now, just as protestors were airdropping each other with messages and gathering in the streets to protest these lockdowns and the terrible things that have come of them? It’s all just kind of ... coincidental.
What’s more, Apple’s vow to do this to everyone and not merely Apple’s China users rather suggests they plan to import China’s repressive censorship of dissidents to America’s shores, an act with very bad smell about it.
It seems that the China protestors aren’t just up against the evil communists lording it over them and beating them in the streets for the sake of “health.” They are also up against Apple, which has proven itself now the regime’s faithful ally.
Not to worry. They’ll do it here too when the time comes.
Hmmm, I’ll bet Apple is beholden to China for $$$$$$$
And Apple has pulled their ads from Twitter, may drop it from their app store.
And this is why china is really a fascist nation. We should call them the chifasci? Apple is the new Volkswagen. It is also the reason the WEFtards are in love with china.
I stopped updating my phone when Apple changed its terms of service to allow them to review and report the contents of your icloud account.
Anything they, at their sole discretion, find hateful or “otherwise dangerous” can be reported to the law enforcement agency of their choice without your knowledge.
When my company gets around to blacklisting my version of ios, I’ll move to another platform.
Are Chinese citizens still able to tweet? Your move, Mr. Free Speech.
Where are all the Apple loyalists on FR?
Well, of course they helped the communists.
What else would the democrats favorite company do?
Apple is against freedom and are a huge TechTyrant.
I’d love for Elon to make a phone to take on google and Apple.
bookmark.
ePhone or Tesla phone
I would also hope that Elon makes a phone with true privacy and security.
They plan to do it to Elon with Twitter so anything bad happens to Mapple, I’m happy.
Apple would be helping the nazi’s in ww2 if they were around then.
How many people have been murdered by Apple’s actions?
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I had a website provider that was bought out by a Canadian company and I started getting lots of spam plus my emails were not being delivered. After working with their support it turned out that they were censoring my email. They do not like the words then the email does not go thru.
I signed up with another provider that I have had zero issues with called Bluehost https://www.bluehost.com
Mmmm. I guess it’s time to sell my Apple stock.
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Profit over principles once again.
we live in interesting times,slavers, vote traffickers corruption in control of government, perversions rampant, pandemic lies, what clues does history give us as to what happens next?
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