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what's this take based on - have a link or anything?
by endisneigh 5y ago
what's this take based on - have a link or anything?
- kurofune 5y ago>what's this take based on Racism and ignorance.
- mmastrac 5y agoIn fairness, this is literally happening on Chinese messenger services today so I wouldn't call it either of those
- XorNot 5y agoApple isn't being pressured from China, but criticizing the CCP as the brutal dictatorship it is is not racist (and that idea is done verbatim CCP propaganda).
- kurofune 5y agoRandomly suggesting that every authoritarian decision taken unilaterally by an american company was made to please the evil chinese government while offering no substantial proof is not "criticizing the CCP", it is just shoehorning US's far-right talking points into a thread that has nothing to do with it.
- someperson 5y agoI don't know about the suggestion that it's the government of China pushing for the feature itself, but the fact the feature now exists and WILL be used by authoritarian regimes to scan for political content is clearly understood by Apple employees. From the article: > Apple employees have flooded an Apple internal Slack channel with more than 800 messages on the plan announced a week ago, workers who asked not to be identified told Reuters. Many expressed worries that the feature could be exploited by repressive governments looking to find other material for censorship or arrests, according to workers who saw the days-long thread.
- endisneigh 5y agoyour quote contradicts your statement. it seems like the employees are worried that it could be exploited, not that it necessarily will be.
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