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john carr – Dropsafe
2023-12
This is egregious: John Carr — noted child protection advocate who argues that end-to-end encryption is a "threat to the rule of law" — says Apple will walk away from 17.7 billion dollars of QUARTERLY revenue from China… because LinkedIn is leaving China
Microsoft closes Linkedin in China. They did not like the operating conditions so they walked. Isn't that what any decent company would do? And if it's not a decent company.. so please, no more nonsense about Apple's plans to protect children.
https://t.co/zZQ6Dm6ffe — John Carr (@johnc1912) October 14, 2021
LinkedIn's *global* revenue over a similar (same?) time was $10 billion, China is (was) only 7% of the LinkedIn userbase, and China is "getting out" precisely because the Chinese Gov't was attempting to armtwist the company into Censorship.
Apple are a harder-nosed company than LinkedIn, and they are not going to walk away from perhaps $80 billion of annual revenue in China.
But they *ARE* going to be under exactly the same censorship-and-surveillance pressure that LinkedIn was under, even moreso because of reach.
I find it an obscene affront to human rights that John spins the very real likelihood of Apple caving-in to Chinese censorship, as some manner of piffle.
Not least: Apple have already collaborated with the Chinese state elsewhere in their product line:
Shame on you, John Carr.
References:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-censorship-data.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/technology/linkedin-china-microsoft.html
https://news.linkedin.com/2021/july/linkedin-business-highlights-from-microsoft-s-fy21-q4-earnings
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208351
https://www.geekwire.com/2021/linkedin-posts-first-10-billion-year-5-years-microsoft-deal-profits-remain-mystery/ (Errata: $10 billion PER YEAR!)
https://www.economist.com/business/2021/07/24/linkedin-faces-awkward-choices-in-china
https://www.inkstonenews.com/tech/linkedin-says-profile-political-activist-censored-china-error/article/2180658
Re: "encryption…threat to the rule of law" see attached:
https://safetonetfoundation.org/2020/10/10/safeguarding-podcast-innovation-is-illegal-with-john-carr-obe/
See also the quote highlighted in blue; John appears to fear the ability to keep something, perhaps anything, private.
Originally tweeted by Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) on 2021/10/14.
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