On Fox News Channel’s “The Story”, White House NSC Coordinator John Kirby responded to Apple’s decision to limit the AirDrop file-sharing feature in China by saying that the White House is just not “in the business of telling private firms how to execute their initiatives.” And the issue with Apple differs from the problem with Twitter, which the White House has vowed to monitor.
“Look, in general, and we have been clear about this all across the world, we want individual citizens, regardless of government, to be able to communicate freely and honestly, transparently, and dependably,” Kirby said. ” And we’ve made that plain with regard to Iran, and we’ll continue to make it clear with regard to China. Apple is a private firm, Martha, and they must make judgments and speak for those decisions. But here in the administration, we want to make sure that individual citizens can speak freely and honestly, whether they are protesting or not, but in this situation, I know that is the context we’re talking about.”
“But why not say anything to Apple?” host Martha MacCallum followed up. “Because we recently learned that the White House is keeping a close eye on Twitter and Elon Musk. So, why would you say that from the podium…and still not call Apple out for assisting the Chinese government in suppressing the capacity of their own people to communicate?”
“Again, I believe we’ve been pretty clear and consistent on this,” Kirby answered. “Certainly, we’ve been extremely upfront publicly about our desire to have folks communicate. And, if Apple is making a decision, they should be obligated to talk about it. But we aren’t — we can’t and don’t want to instruct private firms how to carry out their efforts.”
“Yeah, but Twitter is also a private firm,” MacCallum interjected. “So, my point is, why is Twitter receiving one treatment and Apple is getting another?”
“Well, they are very different conditions,” Kirby said. “You’re discussing the possibility of foreign investment and engagement in Twitter management. That’s a different problem than what we’re discussing here, which is an Apple business choice on how one of their programs is used.”
Kirby responded :that the White House is just not “in the business of telling private firms how to execute their initiatives.”
A BOLD FACE LIE ! When a Demonrats lips are moving THEY ARE LYING. Usually lies of the devil. The entire Satanic House of worship ( white house) is a cesspool of deception & lies. (plausible deniability) The only people who fall for the lying B/S they spew are Liberal Demonrat Scumbags.
Well said. His was and is the usual Whitehouse doublespeak. If they’re talking they’re lying!
Well there was certainly no backing away from the hypocrisy of these guys, that’s for sure. I would call Kirby’s skirting the issue doubling down on hypocrisy. While not scolding the Chinese or Apple, he manages to tell the world that they are very concerned about “folks” communicating while mountains of evidence are turning up, implicating them in a massive effort over the last couple of years to absolutely manipulate businesses and especially the tech giants to censor free speech in America. This regime has no shame and why they even are invited to testify when all they really do is dribble propaganda wherever they go, is beyond me. Time to take out the trash and this is some of the smelliest garbage that has ever squatted in the people’s house.
These people are Traitors in the most obvious way possible. Just like President dildo when he bought off the prosecutor in Ukraine with government money. Saving his butt and his family are his only concerns. He and many others in government do nothing for the citizens of the country, just the rich elites like Sonos. Time to clean house and senate with Traitors going to jail.
Jail is not enough for traitors like the entire illegitimate “Biden” regime.
People keep usingvthecterm “Trailors”. I agree that the whole demoncrapic hierarchy are traitors. However people keep saying “PRISON”, as their punishment, but the penalty for TREASON in our country is DEATH. Used to be by hanging, then firing squad
Not sure how that would be handled today. But if by firing squad, I volunteer. I’ll even bring my own rifle snd ammo!
These people are Traitors in the most obvious way possible. Just like President stupid when he bought off the prosecutor in Ukraine with government money. Saving his butt and his family are his only concerns. He and many others in government do nothing for the citizens of the country, just the rich elites like Sonos. Time to clean house and senate with Traitors going to jail.
The reality is that Twitter has emails noting that specific Biden campaign communications, the DNC and FBI that were loyal to Democrats, communicated HOW they would define WHO and WHAT would be censured, or labelled as “misinformation” though there was NO EVIDENCE provided to vet the statement. then like the pied piper, the legacy print and television media REPEATED this label, with NO PROOF, the only source being the government. The primary beneficiary of this non evidenciary label was Joe Biden, (Biden/Trump debate, Leslie Stahl interview with Donald Trump, and every media source defining Hunter Lap top EVEN WHILE Tony Bobalinski interview corroborated the evidence the FBI HAD in their posession since Dec 2019? Bobalinski endured a 5 hour interview with FBI – they had ALL OF THE evidence TO VERIFY Joe Biden is compromised. THEY WITHHELD IT. 1 our of 6 Biden voters said if they had known about this bombshell they would not have cast a vote for BIDEN. The government is forbidden to do this. This group, Intel agencies, Biden campaign, DNC and Big tech/Media (TWITTER, FB, TV/Print) ALL COLLUDED to influence election.