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Re:Apple Balks at Higher Web-Access Fees After $1B Video Bet by eighthnate on Thursday August 31, 2017 @06:22PM (#15144469)
> Out of all the internet giants, at least to me, Apple has time and time again demonstrated to be reasonably ethical

Their use of chinese slave labor, exporting environmental destruction to dictatorships with lax environmental laws, their use of offshore tax havens to elude paying taxes, etc.

Apple is as evil as any other corporation.

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Re:Apple Balks at Higher Web-Access Fees After $1B Video Bet by nawgszy on Thursday August 31, 2017 @07:39PM (#15144951)
>Their use of chinese slave labor

at least comes with the occasional nudge to the slave-driver

>exporting environmental destruction to dictatorships with lax environmental laws

Can you explain what this means?

>their use of offshore tax havens to elude paying taxes

This doesn't strike me as particularly evil

>etc.

I don't know, there's a pretty damn big list of things corporations do that are evil and you didn't seem to elucidate the comparison well enough to end it on 'etc., therefore they are evil'.

They seem to genuinely care about privacy and encryption, actively fighting the American government on backdoors. That's not something I can think of another company doing. Your move.

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