Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Wednesday that Apple is “awfully cozy” with the Chinese Communist Party.
Blackburn spoke to Breitbart News ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on app store competition. The hearing will discuss, among other things, Apple’s tight control of its app store, which many experts have contended leads to unfair competition.
The Senator noted Apple has a more much more lax approach towards China than it does America.
She told Breitbart News, “What we know is that Apple has been awfully cozy with Communist China and we’re concerned about that, and we have some questions for Apple on how they choose this relationship with the Communist Chinese, knowing that the Communist Chinese are carrying out a genocide in Xinjiang province, and why do they continue to make products there? Why did they kick Fortnite out of the App Store and let Tik Tok stay on when they’re violating the privacy rule? … They’re staying silent on a lot of the bad action.”
She also noted that Apple will pull pro-democracy apps in Hong Kong; however, the technology company will not cooperate with the FBI to capture terrorists.
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