Re:Windows Drops Bing in China for Baidu
by mcintyre1994 on Sunday September 27, 2015 @07:28PM
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Serious question - are Apple doing this too? They talk what seems to be a serious anti spying thing in the US but then they talk up massive profits in China and availability on state owned China Mobile, I've been wondering how they're justifying that.
Re:Windows Drops Bing in China for Baidu
by nikatwork on Sunday September 27, 2015 @09:32PM
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> are Apple doing this too?
Surprisingly, they didn't seem to be last time I checked (2013). There were many apps available in the CN app store which you'd think the govt would remove, especially around comms and reading material.
If it hits the govt radar they will definitely act, which could have massive technology and public perception implications for Apple.
So the Chinese government offered them a "compromise" - let our Chinese companies be the "front" for your products, in which we can include all the backdoors and censorship we want, while you get to tell everyone else how much you care about your users' privacy.
When anyone asks why the Chinese version of Windows 10 or Skype or Cisco routers or Cloudflare services come built-in with backdoors and censorship, just say "it's not us, you see, it's our Chinese partners doing all of that! We care deeply about our users' privacy and security."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/24/us-cisco-systems-c...