Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund

• finley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  When people shit on Apple - esp Jobs - they forget that it was Jobs who directed the company to fight the FBI to protect our right to on-device encryption. And the FBI backed down because they knew if they went to the Supreme Court, chief Justice, Antonin Scalia, who was a huge supporter of encryption, would guarantee any challengers to that right would lose.

  The political climate is different today, but because of Apple fighting for the right of every person to have on device encryption, we all owe him a debt.

  Yes, Steve Jobs and chief Justice Antonin Scalia were both immeasurable pieces of shit, but some good came from them. And it’s a lasting good that will ensure the rights of individuals to encrypted their own data, possibly for generations.

  Again, I’m not defending either jobs nor Scalia, they were terrible people. But they did do some good.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Scalia was weird as fuck and you could never predict what side of things he would come down on. So sort of like Steve Jobs, I guess. He was far-right, but he also said stuff like the time he said that orgies should be encouraged because they relieve social tension.

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    • finley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Remember a time when he was the worst person on the Supreme Court?

      I miss those times.

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    • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The man’s got a point there. Hard to argue with orgy logic.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I don’t know, I think once you got that many people together, I’d get performance anxiety.

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