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UK Effort to Keep Apple Encryption Fight Secret Is Blocked

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170 points flanked-evergl | 4 comments | 08 Apr 25 07:46 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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amelius ◴[08 Apr 25 09:22 UTC] No.43619760[source]▶
I don't understand people who want to defend Apple in this case. UK is a functioning democracy, and why would you want to put a (foreign) company above that? If you want change, you know the route ...
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rodwyersoftware ◴[08 Apr 25 09:28 UTC] No.43619790[source]▶
The UK is not a functioning democracy, at all.
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ohgr ◴[08 Apr 25 09:29 UTC] No.43619799[source]▶
Well it is because the judiciary smacked the secrecy side of it down pretty hard to make sure that it was done in public. That's a pretty strong indicator of a functioning democracy.
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1. rodwyersoftware ◴[08 Apr 25 09:34 UTC] No.43619836[source]▶
The UK has not had any real political activity for 100 years. It's all a show.

If the UK represented the British natives then a lot of things would be happening that would get me banned from this website :)

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2. pjc50 ◴[08 Apr 25 09:43 UTC] No.43619883[source]▶
Sadly, the UK public are pretty authoritarian, especially about things they don't understand like encryption.
3. mattmanser ◴[08 Apr 25 09:44 UTC] No.43619890[source]▶
Do you even know when our National Health Service was created? Or our social security net? When laws were repealed that suppressed minorities, when human rights were added to our legislation? National minimum wage? Freedom of information laws?

Hint: All within the last 100 years.

4. ohgr ◴[08 Apr 25 09:48 UTC] No.43619906[source]▶
As a British native I feel well represented.

It's not perfect of course. We might take a step back occasionally but this usually results in two steps forward. Some press like only to comment on the backward steps though.