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There's a fatal flaw to this approach though. The world is regressing into surveillance because quite frankly the mechanisms are already there and it's easy. Wh
by m0xte 7y ago
There's a fatal flaw to this approach though. The world is regressing into surveillance because quite frankly the mechanisms are already there and it's easy. What happens if someone in the US or the UK start using the justification of "well you did this in China so we'll legislate so you do that here". Someone has to make a stand and the people running the apparatus purposed to make this possible are morally culpable for the outcome to some degree for making it technically possible to do so.
The world is not that a big place. It doesn't take a lot for this to end up on everyone's laps and then it's too late to say I told you so.
- simonh 7y agoApple don't run the apparatus in China, they refused to do so. iCloud services in China are run by a Chinese company. We can't outsource our responsibility as citizens of democracies to a corporation. Apple has done a heck of a lot more than most of us on HN in this fight, by standing up to unreasonable law enforcement requests for access to iPhone data, when the other phone companies rolled over. How much have you done on that front recently? A heck of a lot less than Apple, I'm willing to wager.
- m0xte 7y agoSo refusing to run it then franchising it out to a less respectable organisation under the same brand is an approach that is morally acceptable? Let's skip the whataboutism in these threads. That solves nothing. Incidentally I do a lot more than most people do on this matter.