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I don't think you can generalize at all. Your comment is essentially self stereotyping. I'm good at math so I must be asian. Oops, that doesn't work for me.

Blackberry was a great company once, with wonderfully generous founders that donated tens of millions of dollars to fundamental physics research. No longer.

Now the Blackberry PRIV is PRIV until they say it's UNPRIV. That sounds like false advertising to me. I feel downright sorry for their customers in repressive countries.

There have been quite a few stories lately about their sales doing terribly. I wouldn't be surprised if this leak was some kind of purposeful act of desperation to drive sales by ingratiating themselves with their government and corporate accounts that see this as a feature. For shame.




Agreed. Have worked with dozens of human rights defenders and journalists in repressive countries who thought that just because they had Blackberrys they were safe. :(


Well, I'm a Canadian and I agree with him. Quite often in Canada you'll see commercials saying you shouldn't do something because "it's the law".


Among your errors is conflating culture and race. Those aren't the same thing.




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