[d33]

It's intriguing which battles they choose.

It wasn't long since there was a discussion where some people were arguing that they can't make moral judgements because disobeying the law would put them in a very difficult situation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35028107&

[saddlerustle]

The consequence for not obliging with the online safety bill is pulling out from the UK market. The consequence for ignoring legally sound US court orders is Meta executives going to jail.

[Barrin92]

also as the Meta representative points out the UK is 2% of Whatsapp users. Honestly another reason why Brexit was a shot in their own foot. IF they'd gotten legislation like this through in the EU that'd be a much harder market to opt out of.

[wkat4242]

And the EU is in fact pushing for the same insanity under the "Chat Control" proposals.

[nsenifty]

The above case was with FB messenger which is (was?) not e2e encrypted and since Meta already had the data they were obliged to comply with a court-issued warrant.

With E2EE, they can legally skirt such demands since they can claim they don't have the data so that's a win for them as well.

[seanw444]

E2EE on platforms like FB Messenger means absolutely nothing to me if their client apps are closed-source.