Very exciting to see momentum gathering against Apple's walled garden. checkm8, AltStore. You should be allowed to install any app you want, take any drugs you want, and people who can't use this power responsibly be pwnd
Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store
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#252To app stores esp IOS users and appologists:
"He who trades his freedom for safety gets none of them."
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#253really solid argument for the dangers of apple's walled-garden monopoly
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#254I can't believe they removed waze!?
Oh, wait. Seems like there are different rules for different apps. . . .
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#256Honestly, I think we as in the United States have to think harder whether it is worth sacrificing our beliefs in freedom to gain a few $$$ (edit: A lot of $$$$$) from countries that don't provide their citizens with basic rights.
I’ve heard from a few famous economists that attributed current low inflation to China. It’s probably a complicated and super risky move considering the impact to lower class people
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#257It'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?
> It's time that North Americans take a stand and use economic power for something other than furthering that goal.
Which goal is that?
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you're being a bit cavalier with the distinction between complying with a law and enforcing it. If complying with a law is morally equivalent with enforcing it, you're tarring a lot of Jews in Nazi Germany with a very nasty smelling brush. I really don't get this. Apple has done far more than any other company in the whole industry to fight for privacy rights. They have gone right up against the legal limits…
> It puts industrial strength end to end encryption in the hands of millions of Chinese. But China doesn't allow stuff like that, surely there is a backdoor.
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#259It'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?
> It's time that North Americans take a stand and use economic power for something other than furthering that goal. Which goal is that?
being an economic power
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#260Honestly, I think we as in the United States have to think harder whether it is worth sacrificing our beliefs in freedom to gain a few $$$ (edit: A lot of $$$$$) from countries that don't provide their citizens with basic rights.
I’ve heard from a few famous economists that attributed current low inflation to China. It’s probably a complicated and super risky move considering the impact to lower class people
Allowing the rise of authoritarianism would seem like a complicated and super risky move considering the impact to lower class people