Apple stood up to the US government's requests to decrypt devices but capitulated to China's request to remove an image of another country's flag. This is scarey.
They also denied apps which track US bombing and attacks, drone strikes and such
Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong
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#132Apple's "Courage" ends at little technical details like headphone jacks.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
China is showing the ability to control one of the world's largest, and most advanced companies. It isn't petty–it is scary. The U.S. and others have sold their soul to the devil for $299 flat screen tvs.
> The U.S. and others have sold their soul to the devil for $299 flat screen tvs. This seems to suggest the populace is at fault, wanting and buying cheap gadgets no matter what the consequences are? In truth, I think most people are simply unaware of the many problems caused both by consumerism, and the moral spinelessness of pretty much all large corporations and how that is brought about by market forces. Even in…
> The U.S. and others have sold their soul to the devil for $299 flat screen tvs.
I believe it's more appropriate to say that they sold their souls at 230 dollars per share.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine that the war of 1812 had resulted a complete British/Canadian conquest of the US, which lasted for the most of the 19th century. Then imagine that Florida had successfully seceded from the US after WWII and joined the Soviet Union, along with all of Canada. Then finally imagine that the Soviet Union won the Cold War and has been the sole world superpower for the last thirty years. How would we feel, in that w…
I don't think censoring facts is ever anything but black and white. The fact that Taiwan exists, Hong Kong exists, Falun Gong, Tibet... These are all real things. There shouldn't ever be a reason to hide the fact that they exist no matter if todays reality wasn't todays reality.
Facts are rarely black and white. Look at USA reporting about Venezuela or Cuba. It's factual, yet it also implicitly takes sides.
Which facts? How are they presented?
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#136> replaces the flag of Taiwan with a missing character tofu () TIL, is it really called tofu?
Yes; for example, the Noto font family is so named as an abbr for ‘no tofu’.
(Taiwan should change their flag to �. Checkmate, CCP!)
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Man that's crazy! They must've paid real close attention to it, but I think it's partly due to low resolution screens available in circa 1995. On a low-res screen, it's impossible to draw maps completely according to the borders, so this was probably inevitable and unintentional.
Inside Microsoft, there's a whole database of geopolitically-sensitive issues that have been accrued over the years. You can see all sorts of border disputes and differences in language that you had to take into account when working on global products. On a related note, now you have movies with different scenes in China. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the_extra_looper_scenes_y https://kotaku.com/why-many-in-china-hat…
You have movies where the country of the 'bad guys' was changed in post-production to North Korea to appease China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dawn_(2012_film)
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The U.S. and others have sold their soul to the devil for $299 flat screen tvs. This seems to suggest the populace is at fault, wanting and buying cheap gadgets no matter what the consequences are? In truth, I think most people are simply unaware of the many problems caused both by consumerism, and the moral spinelessness of pretty much all large corporations and how that is brought about by market forces. Even in…
I'd push the blame a little further on. Many, many people are just struggling to get by, and they pay as little as they possible can for their luxury goods. If they weren't struggling to get by on the wages they make, they could afford to be a little more picky about what they buy and how it's created.
The present piece of news goes against that argument though, as Apple devices are simultaneously the more expensive and less ethical option. These aspects don't seem correlated.
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#139This reminds me of the story about how the first release of Windows 95 was banned in India because 8 pixels of the map shown in the timezone selection control panel were colored in such a way that suggested parts of Kashmir were part of Pakistan. https://www.cnet.com/news/how-eight-pixels-cost-microsoft-mi... https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42...
Related to the original discussion, I wonder if there's a story behind how Taiwan got a emoji flag in the first place. Unicode Consortium referenced ISO 3166 for eligibility. Taiwan and a few other disputed regions didn't the cut until 3166-2 revision. The maintenance agency consists of representative from only western agencies. Interesting politics.
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#140I don't know if things are different now, but when I went to school in HK a long time ago, most Chinese people in Hong Kong I talked to felt Taiwan should be part of China.
I encourage everyone who has not done so to have a closer look at Taiwan's history. The situation is markedly different from Hong Kong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan#Republic_of_China_rule
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