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I feel the need to inject some perspective here. Every country imposes requirements on manufacturers of devices or service providers that some person(s) might
by supernova87a 7y ago
I feel the need to inject some perspective here.
Every country imposes requirements on manufacturers of devices or service providers that some person(s) might object to.
If you choose to do business in that country, you play ball, or you leave.
How you pick which ones that are tolerable enough to live with is the question -- and don't imagine that it's moral principles that define it. It's how much a company wants to stomach the loss of that business.
Saudi Arabia (and many others) prevent the installation of Whats App, etc. on phones activated there.
Israel (and the US by the way) censor imagery of certain places on the maps shown in those countries.
Japan for chrissake even forces devices to emit a camera shutter sound when a picture is taken.
And you're singling out China for censoring the Taiwan flag emoji?
How about those other cases? Where does it start / end? Are you saying engineers should quit over every one of these infringements?
- ShteiLoups 7y agoThis is more blatantly political. Do you have anything more I can read about the Isrealy/USA map censorship?
- supernova87a 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyl%E2%80%93Bingaman_Amendment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyl%E2%80%93Bingaman_Amendment https://phys.org/news/2018-05-scientists-open-skies-imagery-policy-israel.html https://phys.org/news/2018-05-scientists-open-skies-imagery-...
- vkou 7y agoAdobe just cut off the entire country of Venezuela from the software it paid for, over a political row between the US and Venezuela.
- antoniuschan99 7y agoThis is in hong kong though not in the mainland
- p7IDD243 7y ago>Japan for chrissake even forces devices to emit a camera shutter sound when a picture is taken. This is actually pretty cool, I'm always paranoid that I'll end up on someone else's photo without knowing.
- seventhtiger 7y ago> Saudi Arabia (and many others) prevent the installation of Whats App, etc. on phones activated there. Source?