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1. Meredith Whittaker (mer__edith@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 19:08:14 JST Meredith Whittaker

   This is great reporting.

   In particular, it's shocking that a key pillar of Apple's brand--its commitment to security & its competence at such--was so blithely undermined by Apple's regional policy team, apparently in service of appeasing an angry Modi gov.

   https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/27/india-apple-iphone-hacking/

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 19:08:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Mer__edith Are you implying trillion-dollar corporations are not the bulwarks of human rights and democracy we always imagined they were? ;)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 07:01:13 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Mer__edith Yeah, I was developing for their platform for the same reason. Was similarly surprised and I no longer am. Clearly, they’re a trillion-dollar corporation first and everything else later. So likely somewhere there’s a bean counter who weighs the cost to the brand of a relative handful of folks on a niche social network knowing about their misdeeds versus the perception however many millions in advertising and PR will generate. Ethics is PR for these folks.

   • Meredith Whittaker (mer__edith@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 07:01:14 JST Meredith Whittaker

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral No! I'm saying that for Apple, brand is everything, whether the branding is "true" or not. And this shows them apparently willing to damage their global brand in a way I'm surprised by, given how much emphasis and investment they put into it.