Re:Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up
by Aperocky on Thursday October 10, 2019 @07:04PM
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I don't understand why people would flag comments as 'suspect', have we reached McCarthyism or the hyper sensitive Chinese level yet? Why is it impossible for people to address the opinions and reasons within a comment specifically without resorting to 'suspecting the motives of the individual'? In other words, why does the motives of the individual matters to you if the opinion expressed within the comments can stand by themselves?
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Re:Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up
by mistermann on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:09PM
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Maybe because the poster characterized the problem as: "So then, is the complaint simply that Cook is not providing direct evidence of these claims? Is that a reasonable expectation? What evidence could Cook provide that would directly tie violence (we know that Hong Kong protesters have committed violence) to this particular app?"
Whereas the article says: "The first allegation is that “the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence”. This makes no sense at all. The app does not show the locations of individual officers at all. It shows general concentrations of police units, with a significant lag. As the developer and @charlesmok, a Hong Kong legislator, have pointed out, the app aggregates reports from Telegram, Facebook and other sources. It beggars belief that a campaign to target individual officers would use a world-readable crowdsourcing format like this."
It could be incompetence, but it seems much more like clear disingenuousness, which is a pretty common thing nowadays.