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I dunno if, “use Apple AirDrop” is a “most basic freedom”. Is it shitty and contrary to what they claim to support? Yeah. Does it merit this melodramatic resp
by matai_kolila 4y ago
I dunno if, “use Apple AirDrop” is a “most basic freedom”.
Is it shitty and contrary to what they claim to support? Yeah. Does it merit this melodramatic response? Probably not.
- Archipelagia 4y agoThe issue here is not "using Apple AirDrop", it's "hindering attempts to organize political resistance". I don't think there's anything melodramatic about calling Apple out on it.
- matai_kolila 4y agoI think pretending AirDrop is the only way people can coordinate is weird.
- bewaretheirs 4y agoI don't think anyone's claimed that was the case. Apple isn't removing the only way to coordinate, but they are removing a mechanism which has reportedly been used by Chinese dissidents.
- nickthegreek 4y agothey aren't removing, they are limiting to 10mins.
- bewaretheirs 4y agoAlways-on is qualitatively different from "only on for 10 minutes".
- pannSun 4y agoYes, until every spark of freedom has been irreversibly extinguished, we are blameless for helping in that process.
- function_seven 4y agoWhat alternatives check off the following boxes? * Can't be blocked or monitored by state-controlled Internet * Is widely installed throughout the population already * Existence of which is not evidence of anti-government organizing. That's what made AirDrop sharing so powerful for protestors. They all already had it, having it is not suspicious, and using it doesn't rely on government internet filters allowing it.
- matai_kolila 4y agoPaper?
- totalZero 4y agoProtests have been around for far longer than AirDrop has existed. It seems AirDrop was being used to share posters and slogans and perhaps some basic information, not as some kind of instant messaging app. If Chinese iPhone users are anything like American iPhone users, I'd guess that most wouldn't want to receive a ton of iPhone notifications for unsolicited content.