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And Bloomberg is standing by the story. All of the people who think that Apple is being misled coerced by the government into denying factual reports, I want t
by cwyers 8y ago
And Bloomberg is standing by the story.
All of the people who think that Apple is being misled coerced by the government into denying factual reports, I want to know how that belief is squared with the _lack_ of a retraction. If the government is powerful enough to get Apple to go to these lengths in defense of a falsehood, why can't they convince Bloomberg to retract?
- bunnycorn 8y agoBecause "free press", "they are attacking the press", yadda yadda yadda.
- allemagne 8y agoAt this point I don't think Apple is lying or the Bloomberg story is accurate, but I do think that some hypothetical coercion of Apple would be much much much less problematic than the government literally forcing a press organization to publish false information.
- dannyw 8y agoPerhaps the answer is that Bloomberg were mislead, either by intentional state agents* or by a reporter who recklessly mis-understood and/or cherry-picked sources? * not necessarily from the US.
- jimmydef 8y agoI don't see any reason why the Trump administration and the intelligence community would ever want Apple to deny the reports. On the contrary, I think they would love it if Apple/Amazon came out and said that they were hacked so it can give further justification to the trade war and further paint China as a sinister threat to US security.