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         Do you know that iPhone users from different parts of the world may see different emojis on theirkeyboards? Apple’s iPhone users in China’s two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau,will not see the Taiwanese flag emoji on their keyboards once they update to iOS 13.1, according to a recentreport.
         Apple’s move is more than simply canceling an emoji. This symbolizes Apple’s continued corporatesubservience to the Chinese government, in spite of Hongkongers’ on-going pro-democracy protests. Butactually, it is hardly news at all. Apple has kowtowed to Chinese requests when it removed the Taiwaneseflag emoji in China two years ago. Moreover, Apple is only one of the numerous companies making such amove catering to the Chinese government. For example, Google, despite the protest staged by its employees,has been working on Dragonfly, a search engine dedicated to users in Mainland China. Meanwhile,Microsoft censors itself for China on LinkedIn and Bing, screening out contents the Chinese governmentsees unfit. ByteDance, a company related to video-sharing app TikTok, seems to have cancelled the HongKong protests from its platform.
         Practically across the board, money outweighs politics. Companies prioritize access to the massiveChinese market over democratic concerns. Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets, sparkedoff a firestorm of criticism right after he tweeted his concern and support for Hong Kong’s protestors. TheNBA basketball league made an official apology to China without hesitation when Chinese companieswithdrew sponsorships and Tencent Sports canceled its broadcasts of Rockets games.
         Outside China and its special administrative regions, the Taiwan flag emoji is still accessible on iPhoneusers’ keyboards. It is also available to those who have their iPhone’s region set to anywhere but MainlandChina, Macau, or Hong kong. But ultimately, absence of the Taiwanese flag emoji from the Apple libraryin China and its special administrative regions represents how the Communist Party projects its ideology,even through non-Chinese companies.
【題組】44. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
(A) Apple bows to China by deleting Taiwan flag emoji
(B) How Chinese government controls politics through its ideology
(C) Deleting Taiwanese flag serves as a punishment to iPhone users
(D) All corporations fear to lose Chinese market