Rubio Grills Apple For Sucking Up To China For Profits

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Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida questioned Apple’s business intentions in China, arguing Wednesday that the U.S.-based corporation is being very hypocritical in order to gain entry into the world’s largest human market.

During a congressional hearing titled “The Long Arm of China: Exporting Authoritarianism With Chinese Characteristics,” Rubio specifically called out Apple and its CEO Tim Cook for celebrating China’s purported vision of an open internet.

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“This is where you come into this absurd situation where the World Internet Conference is held in China, meant to promote China’s vision of cyber sovereignty, which all of you have talked about,” he said to a panel of diverse experts. “Basically the idea that governments all over the world should have the right to control what appears on the internet in their countries.”

Rubio said the dystopian irony of China — a country which was just given the title of the worst abuser of internet freedom for a third year in a row — hosting the summit is just the proverbial tip of the iceberg.

“The most confusing part of it all is that Apple CEO Tim Cook stood up at that conference, and he celebrated China’s vision of an open internet. He delivered the keynote speech on the opening day of that gathering,” Rubio continued, adding that so did higher-ups at fellow American tech companies Google and Cisco.

The impassioned lawmaker said Apple is openly capitulating to U.S.’s foreign adversary, all in the name of profits. What makes it worse, Rubio says, is that Apple and its leaders often “lecture us about free speech and human rights” and problems here in America.

And then Apple goes “abroad and are fully cooperative on some grotesque violation of human rights because there’s a lot of money to be made, and they don’t want to offend their host country.”

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“So again, here’s an example of a company, in my view, so desperate to have access to the Chinese market place that they are willing to follow the laws of that country even if those laws run counter to what those companies’ own standards are supposed to be,” Rubio asserted.

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Hmm isn’t it funny how these same companies who are rabidly for Net Neutrality are also advocates for some of the worst abusers of censorship in the entire world such as China? Does that make any sense? They will lecture us here at home and go overseas to places such as China and celebrate their “open-ness.” If that doesn’t open your eyes to the liberals final endstate of NN I dont know what will. Luckily we have people such as Marco Rubio who can see through the liberal propaganda and is fighting for us everyday Americans. Marco is ensuring that our children and grand-children will have an open internet free of liberal censorship forever.