Re:Apple’s Silence in China Sets a Dangerous Precedent
by taneq on Monday July 31, 2017 @09:53PM
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Depending on your viewpoint, it's not even a problem. Telling China that their government is objectively wrong and should do things differently is pretty hypocritical unless we'd accept them telling us that our respective governments are wrong and should change.
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Re:Apple’s Silence in China Sets a Dangerous Precedent
by jnbiche on Monday July 31, 2017 @10:16PM
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> Telling China that their government is objectively wrong and should do things differently is pretty hypocritical unless we'd accept them telling us that our respective governments are wrong and should change.
Uh, did you miss the whole iPhone/FBI thing here. Not only did many of us in the US (and virtually all of us on HN) accept them telling us that our government was wrong and should change, we relished it! We were glad someone finally stood up to the US government and its surveillance overreach.
Could it be that many, perhaps most, Chinese would think the same way? I suspect so, given how many of them use VPNs there.
Re:Apple’s Silence in China Sets a Dangerous Precedent
by rtpg on Monday July 31, 2017 @10:08PM
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It would be hypocritical to say someone is wrong while, on the same point, say someone else is right (despite the actions being the same).
It's not hypocritical to say someone is wrong without mentioning all the other people are wrong. You can't list literally every bad thing that happens in every press release, and you can scope criticism.