So not only is there no evidence for this claim, but it goes against the documentary record of 18 weeks of protests, and is not even possible given the technical constraints of the app (which tracks groups of police).
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To Apple employees, I will just say: look at the numbers. Over two thousand arrests since June, thousands injured (including people who were not hurt at the time of arrest), many alleging sexually assault by the police. Children as young as 11 put in the hospital. Two kids shot.
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Multiple thousands of rounds of tear gas fired in densely populated residential areas, including hundreds at a time in a single night. Kids taken from parents and put in foster care as punishment for demonstrating. It's pretty clear who needs protecting from whom in Hong Kongpic.twitter.com/gHB6k5Mdu8
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Finally, I offer my sincerest condolences to
@waze, which unlike HKmap is an app specifically intended for evading law enforcement, and which by Mr. Cook's logic must therefore brace itself for imminent removal from the App StoreShow this thread -
The developer of
@HKmaplive has a detailed rebuttal to Mr. Cook's allegations that is worth reading in fullhttps://twitter.com/hkmaplive/status/1182154372563836928 …Show this thread
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Tim Cook probably doesn't have the courage to stare right at what has been happening in Hong Kong. Coward.
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