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Re:Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong by supernova87a on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:27PM (#21184964)
I feel the need to inject some perspective here.

Every country imposes requirements on manufacturers of devices or service providers that some person(s) might object to.

If you choose to do business in that country, you play ball, or you leave. How you pick which ones that are tolerable enough to live with is the question -- and don't imagine that it's moral principles that define it. It's how much a company wants to stomach the loss of that business.

Saudi Arabia (and many others) prevent the installation of Whats App, etc. on phones activated there.

Israel (and the US by the way) censor imagery of certain places on the maps shown in those countries.

Japan for chrissake even forces devices to emit a camera shutter sound when a picture is taken.

And you're singling out China for censoring the Taiwan flag emoji?

How about those other cases? Where does it start / end? Are you saying engineers should quit over every one of these infringements?

Re:Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong by ShteiLoups on Monday October 07, 2019 @03:31PM (#21185006)
This is more blatantly political.

Do you have anything more I can read about the Isrealy/USA map censorship?

Re:Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong by vkou on Monday October 07, 2019 @07:17PM (#21187016)
Adobe just cut off the entire country of Venezuela from the software it paid for, over a political row between the US and Venezuela.
Re:Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong by antoniuschan99 on Monday October 07, 2019 @09:41PM (#21187868)
This is in hong kong though not in the mainland
Re:Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong by seventhtiger on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @02:06AM (#21189248)
> Saudi Arabia (and many others) prevent the installation of Whats App, etc. on phones activated there.

Source?

Re:Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong by p7IDD243 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @12:01AM (#21188642)
>Japan for chrissake even forces devices to emit a camera shutter sound when a picture is taken.

This is actually pretty cool, I'm always paranoid that I'll end up on someone else's photo without knowing.