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Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (3 children)

God damn bullshit always "for children and terrorists"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I hate how people turn a blind eye to these things nowadays. They're willing to give away their personal lives at the expense of the shittiest excuses out there. Privacy should be a necessity, ffs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Why don't they just actually give their actual reason: to spy on UK citizens.

To use children and criminals as a scapegoat for this attrocity is disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"protect the public from criminals, child sex abusers and terrorists"

Aren't two of those just subsets of the first one?

What a curious pair of emotionally manipulative examples to choose, when it adds absolutely no extra meaning to the Home Office's statement.

[–] darcy 3 points 1 year ago

i would assume they mean 'criminals, especially...', but classic tHiNk oF tHe ChiLdReN argument