Perhaps the UK has to descend further towards third-world country status before its citizens will be prepared to stand up and take charge of their governance instead of allowing small groups of narrow-minded do-gooder elites to do so.<p>Presumably—if they bother to so act at all—that will be after just about every high-tech company has left for more fertile grounds.
The headline is misleading. <i>e2e encryption</i> features, like facetime, imessage and some chat AppStore apps, would be pulled from the UK.<p>IDK where TechDirt got "exit the UK market" from.
[dupe]<p>Tons of conversation about this a few days ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36800297">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36800297</a>
If this passes and non-App Store app downloads take off, then the biggest hit could be taken by Apple’s App Store revenues… and the UK gov will loose even more control when people start downloading properly encrypted software off platform from the open internet.
It is funny as Apple no longer use Fundamental Human Rights as reason or excuses.<p>I guess they do constantly read some press / Twitter and forum to adjust their PR strategy.