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Is police reporting illegal in the countries in which Waze operates? I don’t buy that HKMap did anything illegal, but asking for equivalence with an app which
by mercutio2 7y ago
Is police reporting illegal in the countries in which Waze operates?
I don’t buy that HKMap did anything illegal, but asking for equivalence with an app which is doing something vaguely similar in a jurisdiction where any of those things are perfectly legal seems to be missing the point.
- bduerst 7y agoIronically, Waze is owned by Google and not available in China because they did not capitulate to the Chinese government, so maybe that's a bad analogy.
- dmix 7y agoThe police and their unions have complained a lot in western countries about Waze. It’s a very controversial feature to them too. Which shows what type of government they’d build if we keep saying yes to them. This app is excluded to HK as well, it’s not like they have to appease China by proxy considering their app stores are already different.
- solidsnack9000 7y agoIt is really going too far to say that police would build some kind of non-free government, just because they complain about an app that helps people avoid getting caught for speeding.
- dmix 7y agoOf course, if that was the only example.
- scarface74 7y agoGoogle pulled out of China because their market share and profits were non existent.
- idlewords 7y agoHong Kong law is very similar to American law. Don't confuse Hong Kong with China. The parallel to Waze is a good one.