[wotmatetherow]

If you're hoping for multi-trillion dollar multinationals to fight political battles on your behalf, you're playing the wrong game.

Either your country is a democracy where people get to choose what their government does (aka, a majority of people want these invasive policies), or it's illegitimate and should be treated as such.

[zarzavat]

The UK isn't a democracy anymore. There are now five parties in England trying to co-exist in an electoral system designed for two. Our democracy is in the process of collapsing under its own weight.

[nurettin]

How do you design for two parties? How is having more parties worse? This is very confusing!

[GeekyBear]

> Either your country is a democracy where people get to choose what their government does (aka, a majority of people want these invasive policies), or it's illegitimate and should be treated as such.

The US government has previously tried to force Apple to insert a backdoor into its iPhones.

Apple did fight it in court.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_...

[schrodinger]

I didn't read the quoted message as saying that Apple won't fight, but that if you need to rely on Apple to fight (especially when you live outside Apple's home country), you've got serious problems.

[jbjbjbjb]

Sadly, the majority of the people want these policies because they’ve been brainwashed or they’re too apathetic to care. The major political parties want it too. Democracy is flawed.