Apple sues NSO Group for abuse of state-sponsored spyware, yet continues to aid China in the abuse of state-sponsored spyware

Apple today filed a lawsuit against NSO Group and its parent company to hold it accountable for the surveillance and targeting of Apple users. The complaint provides new information on how NSO Group infected victims' devices with its Pegasus spyware. To prevent further abuse and harm to its users, Apple is also seeking a permanent injunction to ban NSO Group from using any Apple software, services, or devices.

I wonder if this means Apple will sue itself next, because what the NSO Group does is not that different from what Apple itself does in, for instance, China. Apple has given the Chinese government full access to the iCloud data of all Chinese Apple users, so much so that even Apple itself cannot enter the date centres where Chinese iCloud data is stored. If Apple is suing the NSO Group for the surveillance and targeting of Apple users", why isn't Apple saying anything about how it is aiding China to do the exact same thing?

Don't get me wrong - the NSO Group is terrible and if they get sued out of existence that's a major win, but the blatant hypocrisy here is so obvious I almost feel like Apple is doing this just to see how far its supporters are willing to go to defend them.

It's easy to stick to your morals in countries with fair and open judicial systems. It's how you act in those that don't that show who you really are.