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Apple explicitly advertise that their computers are locked down. It’s part of their marketing. If people didn’t want it, this wouldn’t work.

Exactly this. People forget that most of hacking is social engineering.

It does still work, but you need to change the gatekeeper settings to allow it.

Nope. They were taking about Apple cracking down. That’s not the same as being forced to make a software change at the governments demand.

This isn’t in contrast to Android. That’s just a matter of usability.

It’s in contrast to the openness of the platform people seem to be demanding from Apple. Current Android is obviously not open enough for them, so it’s not a valid as a point of comparison.

Clearly not true. A lot of spyware and malware masquerades as legitimate software.

> which is why Apple's cracking down.

This is absurd. Apple is doing this because of government pressure, not because of their own desire to crack down.

1. The suicide nets is misinformation.

2. The supply chain is not riddled with slave labor.

3. The chance to airdrop was made weeks before the protest.

You might not be basing your evaluation of Apple’s behavior on reality.

You can read it for yourself.

Yup - the suicide nets story is pure disinformation. Yes they had nets, but the suicide rate at the factory before the nets were installed was lower than of students at US colleges.

> tech people who learned to program because their 8088 was completely open and free to let you actually create things and learn about computing, so many of you will defend this terrible situation.

There is nothing terrible about Apple making devices my 80+ year old mother can safely and easily use.

I have a Mac, and I also have Linux machines. Nothing is stopping people learning about computers.

Why would anyone spend $1000 on a computer from Apple if it’s not what they want?

> You can use it privately as well.

Yeah yeah. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a publishing platform. If you don’t think Twitter is about public conversation then you take a look at it for yourself some time.

You could have spent that hour doing your own googling.

https://twitter.com/JustSchmeltzer/status/159723568323130982...

Do you have a link to the “88” tweet?

Given that Elon is out there posting 88s and Pepe Memes, it’s hard to see him participating is good faith.

Also, if you’re posting about European legislation kicking in, Twitter is a prime candidate.

> which is increasingly the main way to communicate.

It’s not. Twitter is a publishing medium. Let’s be real about that.

Agreed - He is what he appears to be. Although I think the kind of doublethink you suggest he’s engaged in has a way of becoming one’s actual beliefs.

Nobody is saying the problem is new. What is new is that Twitter’s capacity to deal with it has been largely dismantled by Elon.

Citation delivered: https://archive.ph/LH0o0

You think he really doesn’t care about ‘woke activists’?

The scary thing is, I think he really believes that.

Why not? Twitter is now Elon’s private property, existing only to serve his personal interests. There is no reason for it to be given special treatment.

Worth noting that as we speak, the Chinese government is drowning out tweets about the protests by posting spam and porn to the relevant hashtags.

This is only happening because Elon fired the moderation team that used to guard against such propaganda.

He is a self-dealing hypocrite. Twitter isn’t about free speech. It’s a private company run for one reason alone. To further Elon Musk’s personal agenda.

What a pathetic thing for him to say. The notion that in order to support free speech, you have to pay money to cover Elon’s debts is narcissistic delusion.

It would be hard to ban a national dish.

Awesome, you’ve named the features of the downtown of two of the densest and most expensive cities in the world.

You know cities aren’t all like that?

Very true. If the internet is making you feel bad, read a book!

They didn’t push an update to prevent people from talking about ‘burning alive’ during zero covid.

That’s insane fantasy, utterly disconnected from reality.

However, they were compelled by the CCP to disable P2P file sharing between iOS devices, to limit the spread of dissident messages.

That’s certainly oppressive, but note that the oppressor is the Chinese government.

Are you raising funding to pay people up front?

> The major differentiator is that it would have a recommendation engine that pushes out content that is hyper-personalized to you

This relies on you having a greater supply of high quality content than Medium does for your engine to recommend.

How do you propose to prime the pump?