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by commandersaki 488 days ago
This article spawned because the UK is purportedly issuing a secret order under the Investigative Powers act for Apple to implement a backdoor encompassing Advanced Data Protection. Because these are secret orders it is illegal for Apple to disclose the fact they received any and what the content of the order is.
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toxik 488 days ago
It is interesting to note that the UK is asking for this superuser privilege while also infamously silencing a literal epidemic of child sexual abuse for fear of its optics (i.e., Rotherham). It’s a difficult sell for me that the police need this to do their job when they wouldn’t do it with full knowledge of these horrible crimes being committed against literal children.
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zimpenfish 488 days ago
> infamously silencing a literal epidemic of child sexual abuse for fear of its optics (i.e., Rotherham).

When you say "silencing", what do you mean? There was an inquiry in 2013[0] and various media outlets have been reporting on this for years.

[0] https://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/279/independent-...

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toxik 488 days ago
You do realize it is called a scandal _because of_ the lack of response?

> Failure to address the abuse has been linked to factors such as fear of racism allegations due to the perpetrators' ethnicity; sexist attitudes towards the mostly working-class victims; lack of a child-centred focus; a desire to protect the town's reputation; and lack of training and resources.[25][26][10]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_explo...

Pretty incredible mental gymnastics going on here.

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zimpenfish 487 days ago
> You do realize it is called a scandal _because of_ the lack of response?

There's a difference between a lack of response due to incompetence and uncaring officials (which this clearly was) versus "silencing" which suggests not only a deliberate ignoring of the problem but active steps to hide it - neither of which is the case because people kept bringing it up! Yes, higher-ups were incompetent and stupid and uncaring and probably hoped it would go away if they ignored it but that's a whole world away from an active conspiracy to "silence" things.

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