China

It really surprised me that Google staff went apeshit over Dragonfly, and GitHubbers over the ICE contract, yet Apple rank and file seem relatively content with a special backdoored iCloud service that is used in China, no doubt used daily to target people for human rights abuses via surveillance.

I think the compartmentalized nature of Apple corporate culture probably influences that. You can’t be upset about a project you don’t know exists.

Same thing could be said for Microsoft, where employees were upset they were providing O365 and Azure to ICE, but there is no similar outrage directed towards the special China cloud they run

Microsoft has always been firmly embedded with human rights abusers and military the world over—there was no departure from the status quo there.

It’s public knowledge.