Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Why don’t they just disable iphones entirely from accessing Russian cell towers?
While I understand your idea, thats a level of censorship in the hands of a private company that is so cyber punk dystopian that it makes William Gibson cry.
Imagine your phone will start playing the Chinese anthem before it sends your dickpicks to your mother
No more dystopian than banning someone from Reddit. If you violate a TOS of any service provider, they’re usually within their right to terminate your access to the service. If Apple wants to truly shut down Russian usership of their products, they obviously have the power to do so. I find it more dystopian that there’s a multinational multitrillion dollar company that has the power to act ethically in this scenario but chooses to just remove apps from the app store, as if Russians aren’t already culturally inclined to look for hacks or workarounds.
Ofc they have the power to do so. John Deere did just that with stolen machines (incidentally underlining that you actually rent their machines) My point is that you buy the iphone hardware, and the use is not a service. And the possibility of bricking it at Apples, Samsung or Huawei whim is for me dystopian. Access to software, storefronts and internet pages is slightly different in my opinion.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because then Russians would stop buying their phones.
masterbaexunn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why are they selling iphones in Russia?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To generate profit.