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Apple removes gay dating apps from Chinese App Store at Beijing's request

22 points| cebert | 4 months ago |cnbc.com | reply

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[+] jessikat|4 months ago|reply
This is why "side loading" needs to be normalised as a completely regular form of app installation. Far more resistant to censorship than relying on profit driven corporations "fighting" on our behalf when it suits them.
[+] latexr|4 months ago|reply
Yet another admission from Tim Cook that the only “value” he recognises is monetary. Despite all his wealth and power, he’s still too cowardly to take a stand even to protect the groups he’s a part of.
[+] al_borland|4 months ago|reply
What would you like him to do? Pull all Apple products out of China completely?
[+] bell-cot|4 months ago|reply
Um, yes? Apple is a for-profit computer corporation. It signals various "values" when the RoI on doing so looks good, and doesn't when it doesn't.

Whatever their marketing might say about "we make sure that Santa only gets presents for nice little girls and boys", that is how pretty much every giant corporation on earth works.