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		coldtea on Aug 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple’s Silence in China Sets a Dangerous Preceden... >Apple is still a US company at the end of the day. If it makes profits from supporting censorship in China, that makes it a US problem. In what possible way does it make it a US problem? Besides, western companies make tons of money by selling arms, doing deals, and supporting all kinds of regimes, including the most abhorrent ones, from Pinochet's Chile to S.A.

Symbiote on Aug 1, 2017 | [–]

Western people object to a lot of that, too.

Here, we're objecting to Apple's behaviour.

int_19h on Aug 1, 2017 | [–]

Because the actor deriving benefits from those profits is in our jurisdiction.

(I also wonder if they pay US taxes off any of these profits?)

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