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Cook is correct. If Apple does everything the Communist Party wants in advance, then there's no need for pressure.
by yyyk 7y ago
Cook is correct. If Apple does everything the Communist Party wants in advance, then there's no need for pressure.
- leetrout 7y agoI came to post this comment. I think you’re exactly right.
- jbverschoor 7y agoYeah similar to Zuckerberg statements a few weeks ago. You need to ask the right questions, before you get to the complete truth.
- bitL 7y agoZuckerberg has vested interests via his marriage. He can't be considered objective in any way wrt China.
- djohnston 7y agoPlease elaborate. She was born in Massachusetts and Facebook has no business in China.
- bitL 7y agoThanks for a correction, I was obviously misinformed.
- j_shi 7y agoYou mean his American wife whose parents were refugees from Vietnam? Source: light googling
- sampo 7y agoThe Hoa people (Han Chinese ethnic minority in Vietnam) suffered persecution under the socialist government of Vietnam in the 70s. That why many of them escaped as refugees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoa_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoa_people
- microtherion 7y agoAs usual, there is a German word for this: "Vorauseilender Gehorchsam" https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorauseilender_Gehorsam https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorauseilender_Gehorsam
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoWell English has the same "Anticipatory Obedience", often used in context of regulation or WW2 Nazi history. English borrowed kowtow to use in such context, though it's a little broader, but it's mostly fallen out of favour.
- agumonkey 7y agoFunny the only other languages for page look chinese and a variant.
- mdda 7y agoWhere "variant" is Japanese! Much like English is a "variant" of Italian.
- agumonkey 7y agoJapanese Kanjis were lifted from Chinese weren't they ?
- imtringued 7y agoThey share characters the same way European languages share the Latin alphabet. It's not a very meaningful similarity.
- mistersquid 7y ago> It's not a very meaningful similarity Hanja characters which are shared both in the Korean language and also Japanese language are actually quite meaningful. So much so, that persons literate in Japanese and Korean can get the gist of phrases and sentences written in both Mandarin and Cantonese. Hanja characters are basically pictograms, not phonemic representations, and are quite different from the glyphs that make up the Latin alphabet.
- bitL 7y ago"Global ethics". Now these companies decide what is right and what is wrong. Wonderful.
- 9dl 7y agoWhat a wonderful nineteen eighty four
- sebastianconcpt 7y agoYeah but in the case of Apple is more A Brave New World than a 1984
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