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by hellofunk 2655 days ago
> Apple practices tax avoidance using loopholes and lobbying.

He’s cherry picking things here that really don’t have anything to do specifically with Apple. Amazon paid zero taxes last year and they had more income than nearly any company in the world. Google is also quite famous for the loopholes it finds. I’m not sure it’s fair to single out Apple specifically for this.

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>I’m not sure it’s fair to single out Apple specifically for this.

This article was about Apple, go on the top of the page and you can navigate to other companies complains.

I don't know for a fact, but I'd be willing to bet that Richard Stallman doesn't think you should give Amazon your money either.
I believe Stallman is well known for calling Amazon's Kindle the "Swindle". I assume he has some other derogatory name for Google.
This is called whataboutism. This article is not about Amazon or Google. He likely has a similar opinion about those companies. But this is about Apple and the tax avoidance point is valid. (At least according to https://itep.org/fact-sheet-apple-and-tax-avoidance/ )
I see a lot of people defending the page this way, but to me the problem is that a webpage about ‘what’s wrong with Apple’ implies a list of issues specific to Apple. Most of the issues brought up here belong on a ‘what’s wrong with modern tech companies’ page, since they are issues found throughout the industry.