Posted on 02/19/2016 12:56:20 PM PST by big'ol_freeper
Donald Trump on Friday urged a roomful of voters to boycott the tech giant Apple so long as its chief executive, Tim Cook, refuses to comply with a court order to assist the FBI with hacking into the cell phone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook.
"First of all Apple better give the security for that phone," the Republican presidential hopeful said during a campaign rally in Pawleys Island, S.C. "What I think you ought to do is boycott Apple until such time they give that security number. How do you like that?"
"I just thought of it," Trump noted, drawing applause.
"Boycott Apple," he repeated.
"Here's the thing, the phone's not even owned by this young thug that killed people," Trump said, claiming that the cell phone used by Farook is instead "owned by the federal government."
The billionaire suggested that Cook "is looking to do a big number... to show how liberal he is."
"We gotta get to the bottom of it, but we're not going to get to the bottom of it unless we use common sense," Trump said. "So I like the idea of boycotting Apple until such time as they give that information – I think that's a great idea."
Don’s starting to lose me.
So, will the Trump supporters line up behind this anti-privacy stance?
Been there a couple of months ago. I’m long gone from tRump.
Problem is, outside of Cruz, the others are just as bad.
Both sides have a point.
But Apple is left seen looking like they are standing in the way of an investigation of a known terrorist/killer.
Agreed
I think they’re dead Jim.
Ditto. He’s not a deep thinker. Cook is doing the right thing.
Cruz also says Apple needs to comply.
Absolutely.
The FBI is asking Apple to do nothing to remove the privacy features. They are requesting - IN THIS CASE ONLY - to remove the limit on the number of retries. 15 minutes work for a programmer. Once that’s done, the FBI can use it’s existing tools to crack the password and then decrypt the information on this TERRORISTS PHONE. No different than in the past.
I’ve been boycotting Apple products since the early 80s.
Also Toshiba products.
Or how shockingly conservative he is.
I hadn’t seen that. If so, very disappointing.
Why even bother to vote. These are the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked.
Trump has raised some uncomfortable issues about the line between security and freedom.
He isn’t exactly exercising the most exquisite wisdom. The answer to every disagreement can’t just be boycott. Even though yes, “conservatives” have done it as well as liberals. “Protest to Apple” would be a wiser recommendation at this point. The CIA could and would help Apple here with things like their chip dissolver. It wouldn’t have to be all Apple. Nothing is “impossible” to break — only more and more difficult.
But I can’t fault Donald for being a hypocrite here or for pushing a known untruth.
Not at all. Apple is either afraid of losing business or afraid of the enemy to the point of endangering security. Both are unacceptable for such a monopoly
Tgeyd be smart to figure out they’re going down anyway
I'm on Apples side.
Not much choice, it is simply between Trump and Cruz.
I think a lot of apprehension here is that this is Obama’s government. If this were Bush, or even more so Reagan, I think there would be a lot more leeway granted.
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