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Is Apple Helping the CCP Stifle Dissent?

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Is Apple Helping the CCP Stifle Dissent?

HINT: Yes

Jim Treacher
Nov 29, 2022
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Maybe something will come of the COVID lockdown protests in China. Maybe not, if you’re old enough to remember the guy who stood in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square, and who was never identified nor ever seen again. More likely, the Chinese Communist Party will crack down again, and the people of China will become compliant again.

And the West will turn a blind eye. Again.

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On Nov. 9, Apple released iOS 16.1.1. One change applied only to iPhones sold in China: AirDrop's "Everyone" setting lasts only for 10 minutes, limiting direct connections and hobbling a tool that "has been an effective communication tool for protestors." finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-hob…
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3:05 AM ∙ Nov 28, 2022
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Here’s what was in the latest iPhone update, according to Zachary M. Seward of Quartz:

Hidden in the update was a change that only applies to iPhones sold in mainland China: AirDrop can only be set to receive messages from everyone for 10 minutes, before switching off. There’s no longer a way to keep the “everyone” setting on permanently on Chinese iPhones. The change, first noticed by Chinese readers of 9to5Mac, doesn’t apply anywhere else.

In other words, Chinese iPhone users can’t do or say anything without the CCP knowing about it. Dissent can be quashed before it even starts. The Chinese people can be kept under the CCP’s thumb. And Apple is helping.

Meanwhile:

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Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in America?
5:45 PM ∙ Nov 28, 2022
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Apple has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why
6:43 PM ∙ Nov 28, 2022
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Here’s a theory: They’re not the good guys anymore, if they ever were. They hate free speech, anywhere it threatens to flourish.


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Day 455 of Americans stranded in Afghanistan.
12:58 PM ∙ Nov 29, 2022


How many grandchildren does Joe Biden have? He wouldn’t tell you the real number even if he still remembered it:

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Hunter Biden's love child snubbed again in White House stocking display trib.al/2Isc6u7
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Imagine if this was a grandchild of Trump, or any other Republican. It’s good to be a Democrat.


Speaking of which, remember this weirdo?

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It’s official. As of June 19th, I now serve my nation as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy in the Department of Energy.
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11:26 PM ∙ Jun 29, 2022
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And remember how you weren’t supposed to say anything about this nutjob, because he’s a nonbinary whatchamacallit? You wouldn’t want somebody to call you a transphobe, would you?

That was back in June. Now this guy is out there doing crimes. And really weird ones, too:

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Sam Brinton, one of the first “openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership,” was charged with felony theft last month after allegedly stealing a woman’s luggage at MSP Airport.
alphanews.orgControversial energy official charged with stealing woman’s luggage at MSPSam Brinton was charged with felony theft last month after allegedly stealing a woman’s luggage at MSP Airport.
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My first thought was that maybe Brinton just picked up the wrong bag. Because obviously, this fellow has a tough time distinguishing between one thing and another. But no, he didn’t even check a bag on that flight. He had no reason to be in the baggage claim area at all. He just straight-up stole that lady’s suitcase.

My friend Kate makes sense of it all, as she tends to do:

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Sam Brinton's style makes way more sense when you realize he's just wearing whatever he finds in other people's luggage.
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Which is funny, but it also makes you wonder. Considering how casually Brinton stole somebody else’s clothes, was it the first time he’s done this? And how many more crimes will be get caught committing, before the left stops insisting on referring to him as “they”?

I don’t claim to know as much as Mr. Brinton about nuclear waste and how should be disposed, but I do know you’re not supposed to steal people’s luggage. Fortunately for him, he’s not a Republican so he’ll probably get away with it.


And here’s yet another politically inconvenient crime:

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Byron York @ByronYork
From @FoxNews: 'Miguel Almaguer remains absent from NBC since stunning Paul Pelosi attack report was mysteriously retracted; NBC News correspondent hasn’t appeared on air in nearly a month.'
foxnews.comMiguel Almaguer remains absent from NBC since stunning Paul Pelosi attack report was mysteriously retractedIt’s been nearly a month, but Miguel Almaguer still has not appeared on NBC News since his shocking Paul Pelosi report was retracted without explanation.
12:28 PM ∙ Nov 29, 2022
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A few weeks ago, Almaguer reported this:

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NBC on Paul Pelosi: “The front door was opened by Mr. Pelosi. He did not declare an emergency or try to leave his home, instead began walking several feet back towards the assailant and away from police."
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Then NBC News pulled the report from the internet and suspended Almaguer, both without explanation. We still don’t know how David DePape got into the house, which was under remote surveillance by the Capitol Police. We don’t know why a local San Francisco reporter initially claimed DePape was in his underwear. And we don’t know why the police said there was a third person in the house. All we know is that the midterms are now over, so any such questions are considered “conspiracy theories.”

Normally I’m ambivalent about journos losing their jobs, because most of them are liars. But Almaguer is in trouble for telling the truth. That’s just wrong.


Clarence Gilyard Jr., R.I.P. He was 66.

You might not have known his name, but you knew his voice:

Theo was the only bad guy in that movie who didn’t die. Argyle knocked his ass out, but that was it. They just couldn’t do it to him.


Tuesday again. Yuck. Tuesday is the worst day of the week and it’s not even close. Enough with the Tuesdays already.

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JR Ewing
Nov 29, 2022

A lot of people remember him as Ranger Jimmy Trivette.

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A Duck on a Bike
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Nov 29, 2022

I've been an Apple user since high school (side note: I graduated in 1985. So, an Apple user since the Apple IIe) I worked for Apple for about seven years in their technical department, as an instructor. Yes, I have a mac and yes I have only used the iPhone since the first one. There, got my bonafides out of the way.

That said, are they evil? Sure the F**k are, no denying it. I knew they were on the wrong side when in 2020 they took the Parler app out of the App Store. So, this is no shocker. Do I think they take the Twitter app out? No, I don't think they will because I am certain they will get sued and probably lose. But, I'm a bike riding duck not a bike riding duck/lawyer so what do I possibly know.

My only thing is this: where else am I gonna go? Android? They're just as bad, and we all know it. Am I gonna get a Dell and start doing things on the PC? What, with Windows? The company founded by Epstien adjacent psuedo-nonce Bill Gates? OK. When a compnay gets big enough, it's just a fact that have to get in the pot with all the other pieces of shit and swim in the shit stew known as "The Elite." it's how it is. I have on illusion in that regard.

Will Elon make a phone and try to compete? Sure, maybe, I don't know. Will I buy I it? I dunno, maybe. Hard to tell.

Here is what I wish we had, and what would really help in times like this: An actual journalism class that wanted the truth to get out, and weren't shills for Their Tribe. Would be nice if we had that. Would. Be. Nice.

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