Comment by dehrmann
15 days ago
Also on the front page, "German civil activists win victory in election case against Musk's X"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975170
They're not exactly the same, but you should have similar feelings about forcing a company to hand over data to researchers and forcing a company to install a back door for law enforcement.
Forcing Twitter to make public posts easily accessible is not at all the same as compelling Apple to hand over your private messages.
Not the same, but still batsh#t.
On today's episode of "America Learns Why Europe Was Right To Enforce GDPR"
I don't care about either, they're voluntary problems. You're a moron for trusting X with your data, you're a moron for trusting Apple with it too. It's just like how Apple defenders said with iMessage - "just buy a different phone if you care, duh."
All of the sudden people start caring, acting like they never had the chance to regulate their OEM of choice. No, you get exactly what you paid for. You trust Apple, don't you? They're a prestige company, they'd never sell you out. Probably. Oops[0].
[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surve...