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They really did write that. And fall back to “think about the children”. I know the word dystopian gets overused, but it really fits here. Wow.

• Jtsummers 5y ago
  If by "They" you mean Apple, then they did not. As noted by jsnell, and properly attributed in the linked article, it was written by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
  • threatofrain 5y ago
    It's true that if you retweet someone else's message, then you are not the original author of the message. But Apple leadership vetted the letter and passed it around staff, hoping that their employees would find it as "incredibly motivating" as they did.
  • Animats 5y ago
    Which is not a government agency. It's to some extent a lobbying group.[1] [1] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?id=F204571&year=2020 https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...