We might be on a politics forum, but I live in England. Somethings I’ll say some I won’t. But those who know know, just watch their coverage of Gaza and Israel and you’ll see.
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Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor
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We might be on a politics forum, but I live in England. Somethings I’ll say some I won’t. But those who know know, just watch their coverage of Gaza and Israel and you’ll see.
If you live in the country I think you are living in, then that’s because of the many different jurisdictions with overlapping territories and sometime conflicting political goals. It was designed that way, with the intent that the Constitution would be the arbiter, if conflicts were litigated.
As the late Rush Limbaugh would say, “Gridlock is good!” Otherwise you get into situations, where we have to be concerned about what C.S. Lewis touched on, when he said:
What Linux phone will you be using?
Such as? There are millions if not billions of dollars being wasted/redirected to friends of the US government. Often to subvert the wishes of the average US citizen.
What "conspiracy theories" are there (which will be confirmed as fact tomorrow)? Even the government funded Politico quoted Rahm Emanuel, “You don’t fight every fight. You don’t swing at every pitch. And my view is — while I care about the USAID as a former ambassador — that’s not the hill I’m going to die on,”
The UK has declined recently. We defeated them in 1776; didn't they forget they hadn't learned?
I think the left/right slant is irrelevant here. Extremism either end and authoritarianism go hand in hand.
He's already rigged the courts ... and their entire plan is to just push through and wreck everything while everyone watches and screams "but you can't do that!!!!"
"watch me" he's saying
Donald Trump will do anything he wants until physically stopped
The sooner people internalize that, the better
TERF Island about to discover they aren't that important anymore.
I think that comment is a bit over my head. I’m a few beers in 🍻 My country is the UK - that’s what I meant (although I do not live there at the moment).
Pretty much yes, can’t is the right word. I’ll have the Police knocking on my door for a none crime hate crime.
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I think that’s a defeatist attitude. The court systems are not “rigged;” they are more partisan than they were.
And we’ve seen many reasonable rulings from Trump appointed judges. And many judges are not Trump appointed. (Most of them)
He cannot do anything he wants, although he wishes he could, and his followers seem to think he can.
I am concerned about a potential constitutional crisis, however. But I was responding to a post claiming the UK system is better. Our system is fine, but it is being rotted out. It is happening many places.
I just posted about this. The Left’s ideology used to be Marxism, in varying forms of manifestation, but Marxism, still. The problem is that Marxism at its core has no principles that are based in axiomatic truths. Rather, it’s a small step from Marxism to rejecting the concept of a universal Truth that we can recognize (to be sure, in limited ways, but not to the extent that it becomes irrelevant). With Truth gone, so is Beauty and Goodness. Then, like I indicated, all that’s left is Power, in other words Might Makes Right. That’s what we are seeing in the U.K. and the E.U. In the U.S. we are seeing a struggle unfold between two camps, and right now the Left is in the losing position. May Truth, Beauty and Goodness prevail!
On your other point, without the internet we would never have known about many of these goings on!
Make a backdoor only for the UK individuals demanding this and see how they like it.
That's called rigging them in this case .. purging them as fast as possible and installing ideologues up and down the chain ... with the "top" fully in the bag now (Supreme Court)
Honestly, you have to be overlooking the details of what's so swiftly been taking place to not be seriously alarmed
The left is not a monolith. Marxism has influenced it, but it is not “Marxist”.
I have no idea what you are talking about with axiomatic truths. This sounds misinformed. Marxism is something like a scientific theory.
We are seeing more and more power consolidate on both sides of the political spectrum.
It will never happen in my opinion because if they do then the UK government will be accused of behaving like China who install back doors into technology their companies make.
Vlad is loving this!
I'm sure Xi Jingping is laughing over tea while the US destroys itself
The Saudis ... mission accomplished!
Those kinds of statements get you in trouble with the Secret Service!
You might be taken to say the equivalent of Henry II’s (King of England) exclamation, “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” It led to the assassination of the Archbishop of Canterbury, St. Thomas à Becket.
Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.
This is the biggest WTF to me like what do I have to do with the UK? They have no business spying on me.
This is the biggest WTF to me like what do I have to do with the UK? They have no business spying on me.
Everyone getting the Global picture here?
We, as citizens, Right or Left leaning proclivities ... are the ones that need to band together
They've divided us all and now are planning to carve up the planet like a roast and we are all just pawns to them
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We, as citizens, Right or Left leaning proclivities ... are the ones that need to band together
They've divided us all and now are planning to carve up the planet like a roast and we are all just pawns to them
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They better try fixing trash on the streets, stabbings, drug dealers, and cars parked literally on the road than telling US corporation owes them something.
But to be all completely fair, it is foolish to trust your data to any cloud service
But to be all completely fair, it is foolish to trust your data to any cloud service
What you'll notice about the BBC is that they equally annoy people on the left and right thereby proving their impartiality!
All my other comments aside, to state the (hopefully) obvious
Yes -- this is horrendous to see the U.K. doing this
I just don't expect it to be at all unique to that jurisdiction given what the world looks like right now
Yes -- this is horrendous to see the U.K. doing this
I just don't expect it to be at all unique to that jurisdiction given what the world looks like right now