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Posted in Site News at 3:50 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Red Apple
Summary: Apple takes a China-esque approach in handling Wikileaks cables on devices it rents to customers
HERE is a wake-up call to those who cannot see the correlation between software freedom/Free software and free speech. As the FSF’s Peter Brown explained in his interview last week, Wikileaks is an example of Free software ensuring that people can stay in control at the expense of illegitimate power. Now, guess who stands in the way other than Amazoff [sic] (which is freedom-hostile)? Yes, it’s Apple. Raw Story confirms that “Apple attacks WikiLeaks, yanks iPhone app from app store” and this helps illustrate the ugly problem when control-loving companies take control over what people can and cannot do on their devices (which they paid for) and then engage in unacceptable censorship on behalf of their government. Moving from Microsoft to Apple is an exercise of swapping handcuffs. █
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