"I was just following orders..."

threeseed · on July 29, 2017

Not appropriate. Apple is not directly killing people.

And in this case they are simply following the law.

Drakim · on July 29, 2017

What if killing people is "following the law"? It's happened a few times in history.

Or if that is too big a pill to swallow, what if collecting runaways is "following the law", when they are to be executed?

What about monitoring communication for death penalty offenses? (speaking against the state)

_dcwr · on July 29, 2017

EU actually has a ban in place about drugs exports to make sure they won't be used for lethal injections because death penalty is illegal in EU and illegal or suspended everywhere else in Europe except in Belarus.

Of course EU is satan for banning Nazism online too and should be overthrown by USA companies, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14679276

threeseed · on July 29, 2017

Apple runs an App Store.

If they are ever in the situation where they are going to be responsible for killing millions of innocent people then yes let's make sure the stop doing that instead of blindly following the law.

Until then how about we stop with the Nazi references.

zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC · on July 29, 2017

You do realize that IBM was not responsible for killing people, right? They only provided the infrastructure that other people used to find the people they wanted to kill. What's wrong with that?

Also, the people nazi germany killed were not innocent. What they were doing was highly illegal, such as being a jew.