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Tim Cook emphasizes personal privacy in every interview I've seen with him, and he seems genuinely affected and passionate about it. He's also backed tough figh
by colmmacc 4y ago
Tim Cook emphasizes personal privacy in every interview I've seen with him, and he seems genuinely affected and passionate about it. He's also backed tough fights with the FBI and DoJ. I don't mean to reduce a gay person to their sexuality, and I'm no psychoanalyst, but every person I know who was a gay adult in the 80s and 90s has a very personal sense of how important privacy is and it has a very material color to it.
- smoldesu 4y agoWell maybe Tim Cook could turn over a new leaf by refusing to help China hunt down ethnic and sexual minorities in their country. Maybe show a little backbone, if this is something he feels strongly about.
- dymk 4y agoHow is he helping China hunt down those groups?
- smoldesu 4y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2021/12/10/22826695/apple-china-mou-275-billion-tim-cook-icloud https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/10/22826695/apple-china-mou... It's an open secret that Chinese authorities have access to all domestic iCloud data without a warrant, which is often used to profile political dissidents and the Uighur populations that Apple relies on to build their iPhones. This is only possible because Tim Cook agreed to move the nation's iCloud datacenters into Chinese territory. So, when Tim Cook says "Privacy is a human right", what he apparently implies is that not all humans are created equal. It's certainly an ugly hill to die on, but it also makes it incredibly hard to believe that Apple has an ideological attachment to privacy when they bend over backwards for China more than any other FAANG member.
- rchaud 4y agoPeter Thiel meets that criteria, and he is pushing regressive politics and investing in panopticon software for state intelligence services. Tim Cook similarly is a career suit who happens to be gay. He's not going to choose advocacy over fiduciary duties.