longer term cr. senator i want to switch gears and ask you about your legislation to even the playing field on the app store. you know we ve talked about apple basically changing the air drop feature, so is basically stymied activist on ground in communist china activist in hong kong use that feature to get nor activist and support for their cause, and it was totally changed when the people came out to the streets in china. your thoughtings on corporate america and leading this effort in terms of wokeness. what would your legislation do and what do you to say about these twitter files and what we ve learned from corporate america? yes. yes, on the open app market act, this is bipartisan senator blumenthal and i have done this it came out of judiciary committee on a 20-2 vote which was very strong bipartisan support. this would remove apple and
after a tense meeting with lawmakers on capitol hill. caught up with the ceo to get his perspective on these issues but he remained tight-lipped on every one of them. watch. do you regret restricting air drop access that protesters used to evade surveillance from the chinese government? do you think it s problematic to do business with the communist chinese party when they suppress human rights? apple has been catching heat for its new software update, exclusive to china which makes it harder to use the air drop feature on iphones. the change occurred on november 9th, just weeks before the historic nationwide protests broke out over the country s zero covid lockdowns. cook s meeting with g.o.p. lawmakers may be a signal to how house republicans plan to tackle antitrust issues with big tech. he was candid. perhaps a little tense because we both have important issues to discuss. we need to make sure that he keeps the commitment he made to
they make everything there. so, tim cook is completely beholden to the communist chinese. so he is willing to tinker with the idea of taking conservative apps off in our country when it comes to the dictators in china is he say jump he says how high. can t do business without them. yes, they are an american company on paper. but they are really completely beholden to the communist chinese. and in moments like this, it s most clear when they say okay, ban what s app. ban air drop. we need to you censor our people and tim cook has to say yes. ainsley: tim cook says he did this air drop feature where you can t air drop anyone in your contacts after 10 minutes of use. he did this feature. i think when you are out of range china first last month. and he says he told lawmakers yesterday this was for security purposes and it will be rolled out globally. so coming to a theater near you. brian: hillary vaughn had a few questions for tim cook after his meetings. look how this went.
but those facts don t tell the story. in fact, at this point, apple is in no sense american. apple s loyalty is to the government of china. if you think that is an overstatement, consider this. earlier this month apple did the bidding of the chinese government to crush domestic protests against the communist party there. apple did think by disabling its permanent air drop feature in china. so far only in china. it s the only country in which its disabled. so why did apple disable that feature in china? because that feature permanent air drop allows iphone users to communicate directly with one another without using the internet or cellular networks. both of which in a totalitarian state by china are cold by the government. without permanent air drop, it s effectively impossible for freedom-minded citizens to organize with one another. they re powerless. apple knows this. that s why when iphone users in china began using permanent air drop to complain about the
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