Yep, which reinforces the point that defining fascism as a system that co-opts religion is erroneous, as some others here have tried to claim. Thanks for pointing this out.
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Could Apple Pull iCloud Services From the UK Market?
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The UK still has nukes.
Anyway, if Apple remove the additional layer of encryption they should replace it in Settings with a web address for an online petition for the UK government to reverse this asinine requirement. Maybe add the address and surgery phone numbers of relevant MP's that represent the constituency in which the user's home and work are located.
That is a significant oversimplification of the situation…
I mean for starters - blocking the roads is not legal activity, and the Canadian courts ruled as much…
Interesting, Hitler called himself a German Christian. Something that was Christian in name but more Nazi in policy. He figured the Jews killed Christ so he was doing gods work by eliminating them… No body ever learned the lesson from him, if it could happen then in Germany it can & does repeat in other places & times. Fascism is attractive if you don’t know what to look for as a society. 🗽
Honestly, I'm surprised Apple has fought this long and hard for user privacy. We are lucky their executive team hold such convictions, but... at the end of the day, Apple is a corporation, and "profit will win." Sooner or later, one nation after another chipping away at encryption, these "backdoors" are coming for us.
I mean, when you see people saying "just pull out of europe" all the time, it kind of paints a simple picture: if the option is "pull out of a giant profitable market" or "compromise" - a corporation will compromise.
I mean, when you see people saying "just pull out of europe" all the time, it kind of paints a simple picture: if the option is "pull out of a giant profitable market" or "compromise" - a corporation will compromise.
Magna Carta
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Nazis were intelligent enough to figure out that the non-structural/non-material things are much greater than the structural/material things and this is why they came up with a concept/idea.
Please note that the ridiculousness of the concept does not really matter, what matters is the understanding that without a concept you will be dead in the water before you even start.
You can see other "nations" are following the same path and coming up with the concept that they are the greatest, oldest, dug out the Black Sea with their bare hands and so on.
Symbols and signs are ruling this world and not laws as your actual ability to enforce laws can be limited.
When you enter the area with a bit too much graffiti you will instantly know that you should not count on the laws being followed here.
One is right wing, the other is left wing - they are completely different politically.
Communism is a state-less, money-less, class-less society, which has never been tried.
What China has & what the USSR was is not communism.
This UK government is not a fascist one. This is an authoritarian policy, but that’s it.
I’ll also throw this out there: Socialism is not when “you run out of other people’s money”, to paraphrase M Thatcher.
Please stop using words that you don’t understand.
Of course the UK isn't fascist but this policy should be opposed. "Death by a thousand cuts" as it were.
OK - how many countries have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council? How many countries have universities on a par with Oxford and Cambridge (and a bunch of other high quality and ancient universities)? How many countries could match the cultural impact of UK arts? The UK doesn't dominate the world like it once did, but it is a world power on many levels. At least for now. Frankly I think the US's decline is far more marked.
Anyway getting back to topic, of course Apple is going to want to sell in the UK market - the 6th largest national economy according to GDP. They'll just remove any layer of encryption that the UK government cannot crack from iPhones in the UK. As for worldwide requests, the UK doesn't have jurisdiction.
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You misunderstood my post.
I made no comment about the status of the UK as a world power. My comment was simply that having nukes does not make you a world power. Arguing that nukes are proof a nation is a world power, is a poor argument.
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Sigh. MacRumors really has some intolerant and belittling commenters on it.
You understand that many people have a different view of Communism than your narrow (and completely hypocritical) definition right? When China, the USSR, North Korea, Cuba, etc. all use the word and self-identify as “communist” it is understandable that many people think of those nations when they use the word “communist”.
Language is a complex and fluid thing. It helps if you try to put in the effort to understand what people actually mean when they say something.
I mean for starters, there are 1.4 billion people in China. I suppose you would rather waste your energy trying to convince them that their definition of “communism” is wrong and that they need to come up with a new word for their society/political party? Good luck with that life endeavor….
China USSR North Korea etc have Communist parties.
None of them have ever claimed to have achieved communism, which is an idealised utopia - not really a destination so so speak, but a general direction to head in, to strive for.
The most they've claimed to have achieved is Socialism. I've been to Cuba. I've seen the propaganda billboard signs on the on the side of the road saying "Socialisme o muerte".
Communism is at its core fundamentally anti-authoritarian, so having an authorisation leadership is a key sign that a country is not communist.
Fascism, on the other hand is fundamentally led by a"strong" state in conjunction with corporate interests.
People not understanding what communism and fascism are does not change their nature.
But what's more important than the communism/fascism debate it the authoritarian/libertarian one as that affects our daily lives.
Nukes are a structural thing and the real politics unfolds in a non-structural domain.
There is no point in having nukes if you are just following somebody else's worldview or a concept.
This is the main reason a "Pax Americana" never really happened as an underlining worldview is conceptually weak/mafia style and US always had to prop it up in a structural way with a help of military alliances and blocks and a constant money emission.
Tell that to the Ukrainians. Anyway I have said my peace. I hope the UK reverses this absurd request. It really is reminiscent of Big Brother.
Personally, I wish both Ukraine and Taiwan had nukes. It certainly would be in their interest to have them.
Having nukes still wouldn’t make either of them a world power though lol
Politics is counterintuitive. The only reason these countries still exist is because they don't have nukes.
Otherwise you might as well say that the world would be a much safer place if all countries(including Cuba) had nukes. It takes insane amount of competencies and money just to maintain having nukes.