https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/16/16160292/tim-cook-apple-ceo-email-charlottesvile-nazis

Much like politicians, tech company CEOs are nowadays expected to take a position on the big social issues facing their country, and Apple boss Tim Cook has been the latest to join the fray with an email sent to all global employees of the company on Wednesday night, which was obtained by Recode. In the email, Cook provides a strong response to the violence on display in Charlottesville over the weekend, and he goes on to make an unequivocal call about who was in the wrong.

“I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights,” writes Cook. Like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Cook doesn’t explicitly address another issue that arose before Charlottesville — namely the memo that was circulated inside Google suggesting biological differences explain why there are more men than women in tech — but he seems to be talking about it in the same breath as he denounced the Nazis of Charlottesville. He underscores equal treatment of all people as fundamental to his own morality and that of Apple, which is expressed through its products and actions.