This is puzzling. Big Tech breathlessly clings to diversity in the workplace over merit, and therefore are against any form of discrimination, yet they side with Harvard, who is being sued by the Department of Justice over discrimination by Harvard’s admission policies against Asians and whites to favor other minorities to keep their diversity balanced artificially:
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/10/13/doj-yale-admissions-lawsuit/
I conclude that Big Tech‘s position is that the greater good is to perpetuate the lib-think hegemony in higher Ed by maintaining absolute control of who is admitted for brainwashing.
To them unity is acquiesce to their way of thinking. That isn’t unity. We briefly had a unifying common threat earlier this year with the Chinese virus but that got weaponized as a political talking point and served to make a pressure cooker to drive millennials mad enough to riot for imaginary causes which made them feel momentarily powerful and appreciated. That year long exercise proved to the puppet masters that the mob likes to be herded around, particularly if there are no meaningful consequences for their mayhem. If Biden is installed with Harris as his wingman (what with her employment history of ruthlessly prosecuting those who further her personal aims), I fear legal / police repression of free speech and assembly.
you will have to use your imagination, like in the days of radio, but here is a transcription of the skit on SNL when it was funny, skewering Alex Haley and "Roots". It embodies the trigger points of race and appropriation. The fearlessness of the writers at the time makes me long for that time when we took free speech for granted.
Actually, ladies and gents, as an Apple fanboi, I have gone down this rabbit hole many times, beginning with the DOJ's rabid demand for AAPL to encode a back door into iOS, back with the Muslim terrorist shooting in San Bernadino. Here's how iCloud manages your encrypted data:
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Macworld reader Craig has a question about that, having read that Apple stores some of its iCloud data on other companies’ servers. “What data/services are hosted/stored on Apple-owned data centers and which data/services are hosted/stored on Google data centers? A web search as well as Apple forums provide no details on this.”
The short answer: You can’t know precisely, though most of your actual file data is on Google or Amazon servers. The long answer follows.
Apple disclosed in its iOS Security Guide in January 2018 that it stored iCloud file data in both Amazon and Google’s commercial cloud storage systems (Amazon S3 and Google Cloud). Other third-party services may also be used, as Apple’s language says “such as” those two, not exclusively them. (CNBC noticed this change in the guide in February; previously, Apple had listed S3 and Microsoft Azure.)
Apple notes that it encrypts the files it stores on other services by breaking them into “chunks” and using strong encryption on each piece. It stores metadata—information that describes the files—and all the encryption keys on its own servers, while the file chunks are stored anonymously on S3 and Google Cloud (or elsewhere). This is a perfectly reasonable and common way to rely on commodity storage and yet ensure that if the data were intercepted or downloaded, it’s of no utility effectively ever to someone obtaining it.
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AND when you sync your phone or it syncs wirelessly with iCloud, it leaves your phone with 256K bit encryption applied also, so "man in the middle" methods of intercepting your phone's data stream are not effective. Yes those ruthless Chinese could do brute force cracking technics to peel away your encryption and purloin your data, but unless your were specifically targeted (ulp!) this approach seems unlikely for a mass scrutiny of all iCloud data on Chinee servers.
Finally just like with Google gMail data, the main body of iCloud data stored on servers in China originates in China from Chinese iPhone users, not users in the US of A.
and if he prevails, they repay him with triple damages