This is important. Note the hypothetical language used here by Hong Kong police—they contacted "several app stores" (presumably including Apple) with the complaint that @hkmaplive "could leak the officers' whereabouts, which could facilitate the criminals to ambush our officers."https://twitter.com/XinqiSu/status/1182575808361091072 …
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The police in today's briefing used hypothetical language because every observer of Hong Kong protests knows such ambushes have not happened. Tim Cook, in his internal memo to Apple employees, changed this to make it sound as if these attacks on police had already happened.
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Cook wrote "we received credible information, from the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau, as well as from users in Hong Kong, that the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence and to victimize individuals and property"
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So the Hong Kong police spokesman today contradicted Tim Cook's account. Cook also said the app is "in violation of Hong Kong law" Neither Cook nor anyone speaking for the Hong Kong government has been able to point to a law that this app contravenes, because no such law exists.
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Once again sincere thanks for
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It's quite a feat as the CEO of an American tech company to take a more hardline stance against pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong than the Hong Kong police force, but Tim Cook has put himself in that position.
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