Another argument for alternative appstores
Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore — Novaya Gazeta Europe
Submitted 4 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
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RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Davel23@fedia.io 4 months ago
Another argument for Android.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Weak. Pathetic apple
uienia@lemmy.world 4 months ago
More like greedy and nihilistic, like all corporations.
YeetPics@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Apple is a shit-hole company, if you support them, you deserve all the wrath headed your way.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Posted from my Lenovo running Microsoft Windows 11
jayandp@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I’m of the opinion that Apple services ought to be geofenced out of Russia.
Google too.
humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
C’mon, google works with China
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee 4 months ago
madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m sure there’s a quid pro quo.
iopq@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, Russia doesn’t arrest Apple employees in Russia
InternetUser2012@midwest.social 4 months ago
Ooof
fluxion@lemmy.world 4 months ago
God forbid Apple take a .01% hit to their profits to allow the flow of factual information to people stuck in Russia under a monstrous dictator.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The vast majority of russians support imperialism and a majority hold genocidal views (they would never openly agree to this, but on an outcome basis they do support eradication of Ukrainian culture and not only).
Even to this day, every russian with a smartphone has access to uncensored youtube available within 10 secs on their phone.
Not saying what apple did was right, just pointing out the “lack of factual information” narrative is largely incorrect. It’s more a lack of respect for the rights others, nihilism and overwhelming supremacism; no VPN or technology is going to solve this.
fluxion@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m not talking about the people happily living in self-delusion. We have plenty of those in the US too. Free information channels are still important and can be a crushing loss to the people who do care about reality.
humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
That’s a major simplification. The fact that russians do not stand against a genocidal war doesn’t mean that the vast majority do support it.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Don’t pretend there’s any difference to yourself in this though. Just different allowed targets.
You have access to whole ass uncensored Web yet I’m certain you don’t know shit about siege and ethnic cleansing of Artsakh, while the 3 mediators there were (and formally still are) USA, France and Russia.
And the USA representative publicly said they won’t allow ethnic cleansing days before it happened. And, say, in case of Ukraine they well knew months before and were very loud with warnings. And after said ethnic cleansing they immediately started talking the way it became clear that they supported it. And no sanctions have been put on Azerbaijan (which is also a big proxy for Russian strategic exports and imports, but that’s unimportant, of course).
So being Armenian I say shut up.
Also no, vast majority of Russians don’t support anything such, they are just in apathy because kinda big protests were not successful in changing the government.
I’ll add that when those protests were happening, “the West” mostly supported Putin by recognizing his stolen elections, just like they did during Chechen wars and, of course, with opposition to Yeltsin’s fascist tendencies. Cause there were lots of money to be made in Russia for politicians making those decisions.
Any such moralizing westerner should go to the frontline and replace some Ukrainian life in the total number of the dead.