Because we should support violent offenders just because now, because they're "against China" now, even if they're ignorant, illegal and misinformed? Who's using who with your support for this?
Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store
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#632This is why Apple will always be a second-class citizen to Android. If I have a good reason, I can toggle a setting and install APKs built by anyone. If I have a good reason, I can wipe my phone and unlock the bootloader to literally replace and de-Google the entire OS. When I buy a phone, it's a hardware product I'm buying. Just like when you buy a PC/laptop, what you run on it is your business, not the manufacturer…
Why? You want to meddle in politics of foreign countries?
This seems like a purposely antagonistic comment?
The user was stating how freedom is much more entangled into our everyday purchase and use of our devices.
Also, what happens to your mindset when the "foreign countries" are no longer foreign and now domestic?
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#633Blizzard and now Apple. I think this is very serious and it should be a wake-up call. As simple citizens we don't have much choices but vote with our wallets and use social networks to attack the most valuable asset of those companies, their reputation.
NBA has removed fans from games for having pro Hong-Kong signs. Games in the United States.
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#634It's weird.
Apple censors Apps.
The Ccp censors app contents, from approved apps.
So, who is really in charge then...
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#635Earlier quoted context omitted.
> is VERY significant and representative of what statehood represents in the US Not really. It's frigging pot. It's been de-facto legal for decades. Show me a state doing something serious, like banning guns, reversing roe v wade, changing the state language, change the voting age. Difference-between-country stuff. I should have thought of something like that for my initial post; would have reduced this silly nitpick…
> banning guns, reversing roe v wade You realize gun and abortion laws already vary greatly from state to state?
No-where near as much as they vary country to country.
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#636Hong Kong, don’t ever forget when Apple turned its back on you.
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#637Here we go again... Let me explain how Chinese people think about HK, since none of them ever seem to explain it on a site like this. Imagine you are a middle class American. Maybe you are but if not, just imagine, tech city on the east or west coast. You're pretty invested in being an American, skin in the game, manifest destiny etc. Very good. They call this tianxia by the way, basically Chinese manifest destiny. L…
This analogy would only make sense if you used 'Puerto Rico' as an example instead of 'Alabama'. And then the argument completely falls apart; if Puerto Rico decided it wanted to be a separate country, the US (government and popular sentiment) would allow it.
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#638Side loading of apps is a necessity in iOS/iPadOS/tvOS. I hope the various lawsuits on Apple's controls have some effect on this. I understand the benefits of the control Apple currently has, but it's inappropriate for our needs as a society. Same goes for right to repair. I believe Apple is on the wrong side of history on both these counts (at a minimum).
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#639It's time that North Americans take a stand and use economic power for something other than furthering that goal. There are so many places where a simple refusal to kowtow/censor or technical attack on censorship infrastructure could help so many that don't have the luxury of living in our world. If we're not going to use all this economic power for good, what's the point?
You're not going to be able to. America and other classical democracies are in a phase of aging where a decline in prosperity combined with a die-hard (unthinking) application of absolute freedom of speech are paralyzing action. Everyone is disagreeing with each other over a shrinking pie, pitting demographic against demographic, and not only that, any genuine disagreement and decision making is muddied by agents try…
So, you're pro-china, or at least, you like their attitude. Good to know.
Re: Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store
#640Here we go again... Let me explain how Chinese people think about HK, since none of them ever seem to explain it on a site like this. Imagine you are a middle class American. Maybe you are but if not, just imagine, tech city on the east or west coast. You're pretty invested in being an American, skin in the game, manifest destiny etc. Very good. They call this tianxia by the way, basically Chinese manifest destiny. L…
The parallels you are drawing aren't even close to being realistic. Hong Kong protesters want accountability for police brutality. You are twisting the truth.