“Apple hobbled a crucial tool of dissent in China weeks before widespread protests broke out,” reports Quartz. “Anti-government protests flared in several Chinese cities and on college campuses over the weekend. But the country’s most widespread show of public dissent in decades will have to manage without a crucial communication tool, because Apple restricted its use in China earlier this month” to help quell protests. Many Chinese began protesting after 44 people burned to death while locked inside an apartment building, because of China’s harsh COVID lockdowns.
“The deep depths to which [Apple CEO] Tim Cook and Apple are willing to sink to please the dictator are willing to sink to please the dictator of China beggars belief. Apple restricted AirDrop in China to assist the regime in stopping information flowing inside China. Cook is forever shamed,” notes Thor Halvorssen of the Human Rights Foundation.
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