Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

Re:Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro... by kop316 on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @07:44PM (#21209422)

To me, this is why:

https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

Tim Cook defied the US goverment over the exact same issue, and even said:

"Compromising the security of our personal information can ultimately put our personal safety at risk. That is why encryption has become so important to all of us."

So to me, seeing him allow Chinese authorities access to that same data in China in the name of sales is incredibly hypocritical.

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Re:Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro... by heyoni on Thursday October 10, 2019 @12:06AM (#21210783)

This way he gets to sell iPhones in China and the Chinese should obviously avoid using iCloud. If Apple was hiding this fact then I would have a problem with it. And if the device encryption isn’t compromised, then local data is probably safer on an iPhone than a lot of other devices.

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