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."
Just the ‘real’ Donald supporting big government vs. the privacy of Americans. Nothing new here at all. He will always side with the government in matters like this. Bank on it.
This case is the nose in the tent; that is something Apple understands. They have been dealing with these requests and fighting them for years now. Once it is allowed in some cases, which future cases it is re-applied on are purely subjective.
Kind of like 503(c) applications are at the IRS.
So, you drop Ford for building a plant in Mexico, and Nabisco for the same.
Apple won’t put in a backdoor that will be exploited by anybody who figures it out, and Trump is telling us to go with a Korean or other non-American company.
There’s a time for boycotts, but they should be used sparingly, consistently and strategically.
Cult War!
If he’s elected he won’t ask the people to boycott Apple. He’ll just executive order an undue tax burden on Apple until they do what he wants them to do.
RE: Ditto. He’s not a deep thinker
No, he’s not. I don’t trust him to really care about the bill of rights.
To demonstrate it possible would show that their systems are not yet bullet proof, given a sufficient bullet.
They are caught between the libertarian set, and the securitarian set, so to speak.
If I were Apple? I would issue a pro-active apology to the user community, saying that nothing short of such sheer warfare (which it is) could justify their involvement without the normal legal scrutiny, but this crosses the line — and then do it.
Exactly. This situation is simply being used like a school shooting would be against gun rights. And Trump is apparently falling for it.
Reading and understanding the issues before mouthing off could be really helpful, too.
Anyone who doesn’t think this was war is addicted to something
Trump is what happens when the “rights conscious” crowd does a near complete whiff at the plate.
That crowd has only their fecklessness to thank. They might not have said so, but they need God and they have been dismissing Him. So a philistine like Trump becomes an uncomfortably plausible ruler.
This is not government having the keys, this is Apple using its own proprietary knowledge.
I can’t understand how the US government can’t figure out how to hack that phone. I bet someone is Russia could do it.
i believe cruz is in favor of apple decoding and sending the information to the fbi...
not allowing the fbi the unfettered access code.
that is what i have heard.
And this is the problem. We start coddling war, and our rights really WILL evaporate. There won’t be anything with integrity to HAVE rights.
I agree. But tRump has no interest in doing that.
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