to a company owned by the chinese state to the point where according to a new york times investigation apple don't even run their chinese data centers they're effectively manned by government employees and only monitored by apple from outside the country i have a whole video on apple's chinese concessions which i'll link below if you want to watch it and lose some social credit score however back to nso group on which there is more good news it seems nso is facing a dramatic decline they're being torn apart at their seams and it looks like apple's lawsuits may simply be yet another milestone in their inevitable demise one can only hope for example earlier this month the u.s sanctioned nso group for what the u.s department of justice describes as enabling the practice of authoritarian governments targeting dissidents journalists and activists the sanctions mean that u.s companies simply can't do any kind of business or have any kind of relationship with nso without a license breaking the rules would incur some big fines to add to nso's growing list of problems they were recently denied an appeal to have their ongoing lawsuit instigated by facebook thrown out if you weren't aware they're also being sued by facebook which claims they hacked whatsapp though that's old news it came to light in NUMBER_TOKEN but these things take time and there really just haven't been many developments since then also the guy who was meant to become nso's new ceo has just quit and nso have just had their credit rating downgraded to just slightly above the substantial risk category the reason i bring this up is because look we can have our circle jerk as to why nso is awful and bad and whatever but if they're profitable then it's irrelevant this downgrading of their rating by moody's is an amoral judgment on their future outlook which is looking increasingly bleak they're in debt to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars and lenders are trying to offload their debt at a steep discount in order to distance themselves from nso this video is sponsored by lenod who are giving you NUMBER_TOKEN worth of free cloud computing the node is a totally customizable cloud hosting platform whether you're looking to quickly spin up a vpn website or host a kubernetes cluster lenode has you covered if it runs on linux it'll run on the node the nodes just announced availability of their nvme block storage the first alternative cloud provider to officially support this state-of-the-art hardware at no extra cost to their customers lynod's philosophy is to focus on providing all the tools a developer really needs at competitive prices use the link in the description now to claim your free NUMBER_TOKEN if you enjoy this kind of video make sure to help me out by fondling the like button for the youtube ai as well as turning on those sub notifications if you want to see what goes on behind the scenes make sure to follow me on the instagrams i'm at jaunty i will of course link it in the description and if you're looking for something to watch next go check out my previous video on the new allegations against election hackers as always sources will be linked in the video description stay tuned for more
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