U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle lambasted Apple and its CEO Tim Cook over the iPhone maker’s decision to remove an app that allowed protesters in Hong Kong to track the movements of police.
“Apple is yet another capitalist who’ll sell rope to communists to hang us,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) tweeted Thursday morning.
“An authoritarian regime is violently suppressing its own citizens who are fighting for democracy,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) added. “Apple just sided with them.”
The criticisms come after Apple and Google, which owns the Android smartphone operating system, have removed apps related to the Hong Kong protests amid scrutiny from state media controlled by China’s Communist Party. Police and protesters have been clashing for months over concerns the mainland Chinese government is eroding Hong Kong’s more liberalized political system.
Apple has seen the brunt of the rebukes over spiking the police-tracking app, dubbed HKmap.live, whose supporters say helps protesters avoid being drawn into confrontations with police.
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Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle lambasted Apple and its CEO Tim Cook over the iPhone maker's decision to remove an app that allowed protesters in Hong Kong to track the movements of police https://t.co/zpHqscmqTz
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