[tremorscript]

I don't really like the headline, it makes it sound negative.

Big Tech tends to have negative connotations, nowadays. So, here the FT is trying to say that a democratically elected government is living in fear of private firms.

While it may be true that our government are now living in fear of not just Big Tech but all types of Big whatever, the fight was way beyond just big tech. Sure Big Tech helped but it still is a badly written and badly thought out think-about-the-children type law that was being fought by everyone not just big tech.

I didn't bother to read the article. Headlines are important There are other things to rage about Big Tech, this is not the one.

[p-e-w]

You're making it sound as if the headline was poorly written, perhaps by accident or by a poor writer.

I can assure you that isn't the case. Whoever wrote that headline is a copywriting genius. The headline conveys almost the exact opposite of what really happened, without being factually wrong.

That doesn't happen by accident.

[shawabawa3]

Does it?

For me the headline conveyed exactly what happened...

[zo1]

Curious what you would say the opposite is?

[Terretta]

> Curious what you would say the opposite is?

“UK has not backed down in tech encryption row, minister says”

https://www.reuters.com/technology/uk-minister-says-position...

[esperent]

Can you give an example of what you think a better headline would be in this case?

[j0ej0ej0e]

lol the uk gov has more negative connotations than bigtech.

Also not quite democratic when the uk electorate last voted for a gov in 2019 but we have had 3 prime ministers since all with vastly different strategies, where the last 2 were chosen by anyone who wants to pay for a membership to the tory party, including fake identities made by journalists who registered from france.

If you had some context, bigtech are actually fighting to keep encryption alive and are the goodies in this story.

Context is important, so is reading. But thanks for your insight in the article you didn't read.

[jabradoodle]

I think you misunderstood OP. Their point is the article headline sounds like democracy loosing out to evil big tech; they, like you, don't see it that way.

[shawabawa3]

To anyone vaguely familiar with the story, or the UK government, the headline doesn't sound like that at all

[mr_toad]

In the UK parties are free to choose their leader by any means they like. They have a lot less power than a President - which is part of the reason the previous two were deposed.

[dewclin]

Similar story (no pun intended) in The Guardian [1]:

> UK ministers seek to allay WhatsApp and Signal concerns in encryption row

Nothing to see here folks, just a minor dispute between the Gov and two companies ...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/06/whatsapp-signa...

[simonjgreen]

FT is a conservative-centre aligned news outlet, so stands to reason they'd favour their preferred party

[creativenolo]

Do you read it regularly? It is centre aligned but as a reader, I wouldn’t say it was Conservative aligned. It certainly is a mile off its alignment with the “Tory press” that typically set the new agenda.

[frereubu]

I'm a subscriber and I'd say it is small-c conservative (which I'm not really, I just appreciate that it's relatively open about its biases and enjoy the quality of writing), but it isn't aligned with the Conservative Party, which has become almost entirely unmoored from reality.

[ftreader4350]

Usually I would tend to agree that the articles are well written and well researched, however after reading this steaming pile of surface level dross on a subject I have technical knowledge of, I might be less trusting of their editorial slant and quality of journalism in future.

[ycombinete]

This is called Knolls Law of Media Accuracy:

“everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge”

Edit: actually I was thinking of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. They both work though.

Both discussed in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13624175

[simonjgreen]

Yes, I am a regular reader. And I didn't say Conservative with a capital C, I said conservative centre. As in, centre with a conservative angle.

[creativenolo]

Ok, that makes sense but wasn’t obvious.

The Conservative Party, and parties on the far right parties across the world, have left conservatism behind. Something the the left and centre parties are having to take up.