3 ms·
> Moreover, what are these incidents where protesters have targeted individual police for a premeditated attack? Can Mr. Cook point to a single example? Can any
by nabdab 7y ago
> Moreover, what are these incidents where protesters have targeted individual police for a premeditated attack? Can Mr. Cook point to a single example? Can anyone?
The message stated that they had credible sources. That really should be enough in that type of communication. He was not trying to make a court case providing evidence he was describing the company decision to employees.
Now if there actually haven’t been any such cases then it adds question to the sources not to Apples decision or communication.
And really you can’t expect a company like Apple to start employing foreign government spies to infiltrate government institutions in order to provide credibility checking of information provided. If the police are saying they have reports of misuse of the app and violent attacks Apple has to act on that.
- defterGoose 7y agoThe venue really doesn't matter considering that the source is effectively unimpeachable. Sure, it might be proper for Apple to err on the side of caution when violence is involved, but in this case, there is definitely violence on both sides, and one side (the state) definitely has the upper hand. Plus, the idea that the app could be used for specific targeting of individual police has pretty clearly been debunked. In the end its really just a question of whether you think Apple should be on the side of egalitarianism or unrestricted profit.