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AAPL will do what it's told by the government so the shareholders keep their money.

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Apple often says no to the US Government, something Huawei cannot do by law.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/14/apple-refuses-barr-request-t...

Can't be that often considering Apple says yes to the government tens of thousands a time a year[1].

That includes dragnet surveillance from the federal government, where "0 to 499" FISA data requests yielded data from over 32,000 different accounts over just a 6 month long period.

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html

And the US government can say "no" right back to Apple since iPhone-unlocking tools are/have been readily available and purchased in droves by American law-enforcement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayshift

What does that have to do with my statement ?

It illustrates that your consent is worthless where protecting personal privacy is concerned.

What does my consent have to do with anything? The difference between commanding private industry to do something and hacking them yourself is the difference between free and unfree societies. Why you are trying to blur the line I don't know.

Big difference.

Apple can try to say no because the US government asks them to do illegal things that violate the US constitution. That's not the case in China.

So yours is a pure defense of Huawei, because they country the operate in has no civil liberty protections, they aren't at fault for helping authoritarians build a surveillance state and spy on others?

I mean, I guess so. That doesn't mean Huawei isn't harming the safety and security of millions while Apple is just your standard monopolist.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/huawei-surve...

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