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by thewebguyd 219 days ago
> but it's just so easy to fall into nationalistic prattle instead of fixing the real problem.

Right. This, right now, is 100% a UK problem. De-Americanising your tech stack isn't going to fix the political issues domestically. Hence Apple pulling ADP out, they made the choice of not complying with the UK and not offering the service instead of compromising the service for everyone else in the world.

UK citizens need to direct their attention inwards against their own government.
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alt227 218 days ago
> Right. This, right now, is 100% a UK problem.

Do you not think every other govenrment in the world is currently eyeing this up and figuring out how to do the same thing?

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port11 218 days ago
Scary stuff: they've just handed the EU a reason to go after ADP. Turns out no back door is needed, you just force their position into making ADP unavailable in the EU.
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alt227 218 days ago
I still believe that 5 eyes organised this, but the UK drew the short straw and had to be the guinea pig.
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NetMageSCW 218 days ago
That is just borrowing trouble that hasn’t arisen.
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denkmoon 219 days ago
Oh yes, the UK is very keen on Reform. Reform in this case however is the death rattle of a long dead empire.
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rounce 218 days ago
“Death rattle”? More like “zombie groan”.
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ungreased0675 219 days ago
Last time I was in the UK, the news (BBC) was bizarrely 90% American politics. Trump this, Trump did that, etc. People there knew American politicians better than the people who actually represent them.
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1over137 218 days ago
Why “bizarrely”? The US has enormous influence on many countries, Trump’s actions are newsworthy in many places.
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lintfordpickle 218 days ago
If the UK news is made up of 90% US politics, and 10% UK politics, then I would say that is definitely bizarre.
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foldr 218 days ago
Here is the BBC news website:

https://bbc.co.uk/news

It is not 90% American politics.

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subscribed 218 days ago
Trump is a chum with Farage, far right con man and Putin's buddy.

For the reasons unknown BBC is *massively* promoting and platforming far right in the last few times (airtime, framing of the events, promoting party lines as facts, etc).

So Trump in the BBC might be considered beneficial to the far right. This would explain it.

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