So the question is, who did Apple talk to? We have a Hong Kong legislator telling Mr. Cook his facts are wrong, the app developer doing the same, and the Hong Kong authorities professing ignorance of the matter. What other technologies will Apple disable in Hong Kong on hearsay?
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I tweeted an example earlier of Hong Kongers using anonymous AirDrop to coordinate a protest the day the day after police shot a high schooler. If the police tell Mr. Cook to shut the feature down, will he do that too?https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1182180379249168384 …
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Mr. Cook owes his employees a truthful explanation of why Apple chose to ban this app. At best, he has taken the words of the hostile police force the app is designed to protect people from at face value, without checking his facts. At worst, he's not interested in the facts.
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But Mr. Cook also owes an explanation to the people of Hong Kong who are marching in the millions to fight for values he claims to profess. I urge Mr. Cook to come to Hong Kong and meet with Mr. Mok, with first aiders, young demonstrators, and see the situation for himself.
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Mr. Cook has famously defended controversial decisions like his ongoing engagement with authoritarian rulers in China, or his dinners with President Trump, by saing "the sidelines are not a successful place to be... the way that you influence these issues is to be in the arena."
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This is a chance for Mr. Cook to make amends by stepping into the arena. He would be warmly welcomed in Hong Kong, he would have a chance to see with his own eyes what is happening here, and he would leave perhaps more in touch with the values that Apple still claims to uphold.
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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 Store8 replies 55 retweets 192 likesShow this thread -
I don't care for Apple, but they have a clear policy. If the US government said Waze is illegal, they'd take it down. That just hasn't happened yet.
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The Hong Kong government was asked about the situaton and said "huh?" No one has pointed to a single law this app breaks.
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My understanding was that the CCP complained so Apple complied. I don't believe it was Apple's idea.
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Hong Kong as you know has its own legal system and actual rule of law, so it's important to point to a specific law this app is breaking
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