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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by x1unix on Thursday October 02, 2025 @09:54PM (#45457975)
Apple removed a lot of apps from the store in order to stay present in Russia.

Just business

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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by tempodox on Friday October 03, 2025 @01:03AM (#45459180)
Only goes to show how the U.S. are becoming more like Russia by the day.
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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by dovemoney on Friday October 03, 2025 @04:31PM (#45467456)
Yes
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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by Cthulhu_ on Friday October 03, 2025 @05:40AM (#45460954)
The big tech companies bent the knee (or, complied with local policies and laws) to Russia, China, Europe, etc already to do business over there, it's nothing particularly new but we are fully aware that Russia and China are not free countries, and Europe has stricter consumer / data protection laws (so it's less free for companies than the US).
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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by wizzwizz4 on Friday October 03, 2025 @10:30AM (#45463438)
> Europe has stricter consumer / data protection laws (so it's less free for companies than the US)

More free for the general populace, though (at least in this regard: I'm not making a holistic assessment in this sentence).

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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by worik on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:59PM (#45467138)
> we are fully aware that Russia and China are not free countries

Pot to kettle....

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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by dspillett on Friday October 03, 2025 @08:36AM (#45462258)
Just business under an authoritarian regime. Things happening the way they happen in Russia is not exactly something I'd aspire to, or readily accept…
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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by buellerbueller on Friday October 03, 2025 @08:57AM (#45462436)
Did anyone actually believe {MEGACORP} would prefer political alignment to money?
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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by FollowingTheDao on Friday October 03, 2025 @10:26AM (#45463396)
"Just business"

The slogan of fascists.

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Re:Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ by kcplate on Friday October 03, 2025 @06:55PM (#45468756)
Negative. It was Credere, Obbedire, Combattere
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