Why did Apple disable that feature in China? Well, because that feature, permanent AirDrop, allows iPhone users to communicate directly with one another without using the internet or cellular networks - both of which in a totalitarian state like China, are controlled by the government and that means that without permanent AirDrop, it's effectively impossible for freedom-minded citizens to organize with one another.
Apple, of course, knows this and that's why when iPhone users in China began using permanent AirDrop to complain about the Communist Party, Apple just shut it down.
Apple's decision to side with the oppressors over the oppressed, Apple's decision to actively help America's enemies, to hurt ordinary people seeking freedom, just wasn't news in the view of The New York Times - not that you should be surprised by it.
The biggest company in the world banning a video-sharing website, reaching half the country because people might search for accurate information that Apple didn't want them to see because it might offend their sponsors in communist China.
So would Apple do this? Well, several tech developers are coming forward to confirm that this is exactly how Apple operates and has for years.
Apple engages in large-scale secretive censorship and always and everywhere Apple helps the Chinese government, so preventing American citizens from saying what they believe or getting to the truth about something while bolstering the power of one of the most repressive governments in the world.
Now, Apple must have known that what Carr was telling them was likely true, but Apple ignored him anyway and did nothing.
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