Apple fought the law and — contrary to the song lyrics — it won. Years later, Apple decided it would get ahead of the law enforcement curve by attempting to engage in client-side scanni…

Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act::Apple fought the law and – contrary to the song lyrics – it won. Years later, Apple decided it would get ahead of the law enforcement curve by attempting to engage in client-side scanning of iPhone users’ content. That worked out less well for Apple, which (at least momentarily) decided making governments happy was more…

  • JTode@lemmy.worldEnglish
    612·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • brianorca@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • JTode@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        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.