Joanne FreemanEM: <tweets hate and muck>
Apple: pulls advertising from Twitter
EM: YOU'RE AGAINST FREE SPEECH.
Apple: No. We don't want to associate our brand with hate and muck. You're free to speak. We're free to walk away from it.
A.W.Ford, the Curious Curator@jbf1755 you forgot the line where Apple disables a critical protest tool in China just 2 weeks before these new protests broke out... EM just makes it easier for Apple to LOOK less complicit, being a pompous airbag and all.
π π πΊ ππππ@awford @jbf1755 Point of order:
AirDrop was not disabled. It was limited in that AirDrop can no longer remain open to βeveryoneβ (not just contacts, etc.) in China for more than ten minutes at a time. After that time, it must be enabled again for βeveryoneβ. Takes about 5 seconds from Control Center.
Actually surprised they got away with this in China, if this is true.
@ZeKik @jbf1755 1 of the critical things that made it a successful activist tool was "discovery through anonymity". This requires the everyone group permission. To continuously require a user to re-enable this openness to anonymous discovery every ten minutes is the digital = of the old Chinese water torture trick. It kills the spirit that helped it spread ideas safely and anonymously, six times an hour, 144 times a day.
I stand by the statement regardless of the terminology. Disabled it.