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Context for anyone who doesn't know: Apple, by law, operates iCloud/iMessage servers in China in the physical control of the CCP (presumably enabling wiretapping and censorship on-demand) to be able to offer those services to iPhone users in China.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/25/18020508/how-china-compl...

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Which makes Apple & Google (and other tech companies) complicit with the CCP behavior for the sake of the almighty $$.

Google was the only tech company that took a moral stance and left China I thought?

It hurt their income so bad new leadership tried to get back in...

It always starts with a "new leadership"...

No matter what the PR departments of these corporations would have us believe, when push comes to shove it's always about the money. These corporations are fair-weather activists at best.

I think Larry and Sergey still basically control the thing. They both have far more money than they know what to do with. Why would they compromise that much when the money makes no difference to them?

Honestly, I didn't know that specific thing. I was speaking generally.

The first time I said it was to someone who told me that while they personally have no problem with people of other races, they could never hire someone "like that" to work and their business because the racist town they lived in wouldn't like it, and it would hurt business.

This person was totally against racism, unless it would hurt them financially.

Taking an ethical stand when it doesn't hurt you isn't taking an ethical stand.

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