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Apple CEO Tim Cook Meets Chinese Regulator After Hong Kong App Criticism @ 2019-10-19T20: 返回 新闻热点
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APPLE REMOVED HKMAP.LIVE, A MAPPING APP THAT CROWDSOURCES THE LOCATION OF POLICE AND PROTESTERS IN HONG KONG, FROM THE APP STORE, SAYING IT VIOLATED THE STORE"S GUIDELINES AND LOCAL LAWS. HKMAP TWEETED LAST THURSDAY THAT IT DISAGREED WITH APPLE"S CLAIM THAT THE APP ENDANGERED LAW ENFORCEMENT AND HONG KONG RESIDENTS.
APPLE CEO TIM COOK HAS SENT AN EMAIL TO EMPLOYEES WITH A LENGTHIER EXPLANATION FOR WHY THE COMPANY CHOSE TO REMOVE HKMAP.LIVE FROM THE APP STORE YESTERDAY. SIMILAR TO APPLE’S STATEMENT LAST NIGHT, COOK CLAIMS THAT THE APP — A CROWDSOURCED MAPPING TOOL THAT’S BECOME USEFUL AMID THE ONGOING PROTESTS IN HONG KONG — WAS BEING MISUSED IN WAYS THAT COULD THREATEN PUBLIC SAFETY.
A GROUP OF SEVEN HIGH-PROFILE SENATORS, INCLUDING DEMOCRATS ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ AND RON WYDEN AND REPUBLICANS TED CRUZ AND MARCO RUBIO, SENT A LETTER TO APPLE CEO TIM COOK FRIDAY CONDEMNING THE COMPANY FOR REMOVING THE APP, WHICH HONG KONG RESIDENTS USED TO AVOID THE DANGERS OF POLITICAL UNREST. THE SENATORS CALL APPLE’S REMOVAL OF THE HKMAP.LIVE APP “CENSORSHIP.”
U.S. LAWMAKERS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE LAMBASTED APPLE AND ITS CEO TIM COOK OVER THE IPHONE MAKER"S DECISION TO REMOVE AN APP THAT ALLOWED PROTESTERS IN HONG KONG TO TRACK THE MOVEMENTS OF POLICE.
OF COURSE TIM, TRUST THE PARAMILITARY POLICE FROM A MILITANT ETHNO-NATIONALISM TOTALITARIAN REGIME. DO YOU KNOW THE HONG KONG POLICE - UNDER BEIJING'S ORDER - WEAR FACE MASKS AND SHOW NO IDENTIFICATION OF WHICHEVER SORT. HONG KONG IS CLEARLY FACING A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, AS VERIFIED BY MANY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS OBSERVERS AND LEGISLATORS FROM THE WEST WHO VISITED THE PROTEST SITES. WELL DONE APPLE AND TIM COOK FOR SIDING WITH A BRUTAL REGIME FOR PROFIT.
IN AN EMAIL TO APPLE EMPLOYEES, COOK ADDRESSED SPECIFIC ALLEGATIONS THAT (SURPRISE!) AUTHORITIES IN HONG KONG MIGHT BE MISREPRESENTING THE THREAT POSED TO POLICE BY THE HKMAP.LIVE APP. “OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS WE RECEIVED CREDIBLE INFORMATION, FROM THE HONG KONG CYBERSECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY CRIME BUREAU, AS WELL AS FROM USERS IN HONG KONG, THAT THE APP WAS BEING USED MALICIOUSLY TO TARGET INDIVIDUAL OFFICERS FOR VIOLENCE AND TO VICTIMIZE INDIVIDUALS AND PROPERTY WHERE NO POLICE ARE PRESENT,” COOK WROTE. “THIS USE PUT THE APP IN VIOLATION OF HONG KONG LAW.”
A PROMINENT HONG KONG LEGISLATOR AND IT ENTREPRENEUR, CHARLES MOK, HAS WARNED APPLE FROM BECOMING "AN ACCOMPLICE FOR CHINESE CENSORSHIP AND OPPRESSION" IN AN OPEN LETTER TO APPLE CEO TIM COOK.
ON THURSDAY, BOTH REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS CALLED OUT APPLE AND ITS CEO TIM COOK FOR THE COMPANY’S DECISION TO REMOVE AN APP FROM ITS STORE THAT ALLOWED HONG KONG PROTESTERS TO TRACE THE MOVEMENTS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.
HILL: LAST THING, AND THEN I"LL LET YOU GO. IT"S WORTH REMEMBERING THAT TIM COOK WAS INTERIM CEO AT APPLE A COUPLE OF TIMES BEFORE HE GOT THE JOB FULL-TIME. WHILE THERE WAS SKEPTICISM ABOUT HIM BEING CEO, THERE WAS NO SURPRISE. EVEN WHEN STEVE JOBS WAS THE CEO, THERE CAME A POINT IN TIME WHEN WE ALL KNEW WHO WAS GOING TO BE NEXT. TIM COOK IS 58 YEARS OLD; HE APPEARS TO BE IN VERY GOOD HEALTH. THERE"S NO REASON TO THINK HE WOULDN"T BE CEO FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS. I AM CURIOUS, THOUGH: IS THERE ANY TALK THAT YOU"RE AWARE OF REGARDING WHO FOLLOWS HIM? WHO IS TIM COOK"S TIM COOK?

 

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