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by jimclegg 2567 days ago
>In the west, instead, its a little bit more back and forth between tech and government.

Hand over data or shut down your company is the ultimatum.

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That wasn't the case when the FBI tried to get apple to unlock iphones for them [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute

Because Apple is too big. Had Apple been a smaller company, that would have been the ultimatum.