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These techsters are showing their whole ass these days.
The only claim they've got to being in any way necessary to our society is the illusion that people need to be on their platforms/devices. Their gambit here indicates that they have been eating way too much of their own dogfood. Humans got along just fine without so much as a pocket watch for millenia, we can handle losing Apple.
edit: I know nothing about the law this is responding to and I don't really care to bother understanding it; this is Brexit UK and there is nobody at the wheel, everyone is aware of this, so I'm sure the bill is just as toxic and ultimately self-destructive as their reaction to it.
Meta and Google are ceding the territory of serving news here in Canada based on a similar protest, and I am SO here for it.
You're getting things completely mixed up.
Meta threatens to leave when they're not allowed to gobble up all the users private data.
Apple threatens to close their services because they can no longer guarantee the privacy of their users, from anybody, if the government forces them to build in back door to snoop on citizens.
See also Apple–FBI encryption dispute.
Government all over the world are trying to outlaw end-to-end encryption and Apple is taking a stand here, because encryption backdoors means an end to legal privacy.
And you probably thinking "well, if you haven't done anything wrong, you've nothing to hide and nothing to fear", right?
Well, who's to say what's wrong? I personally don't think homosexuality or atheism is wrong, but they're capital offences in some countries.
Ah yes, the E2E band, I'd forgotten they were doing that.
No, I'm against that one fully. But, I also think that the hacker community will take steps, and if it comes right down to it, I trust the tech workers of the world to say enough is enough at some point. There are a statistically small number of us who actually know how to make machine go and they will eventually alienate enough of us that we go full John Galt on their ass. I guarantee it!
Totally different kind of laws. The Canada law makes the tech companies pay for news that get from other sources. I'm not sure I agree with that link tax, but I see the reasoning. The UK law outlaws end to end encryption, which is anti consumer in my view.
I don't actually agree with my government, I'm just amused that that - a tax - was all it took to make them cede the territory. We found the news just fine before FB and google, we will find it again without them. It's a net win for us, IMO.
Not so much the E2E, that is a disaster - I just see the question of corporate capitulation to authoritarianism as a question of "when" rather than "if" so I don't much care what shithead politicians do, the more obnoxious the better at this point, and I have zero faith that a corporation will lead the fight that saves us from their fuckery.