Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK

Technology@lemmy.world – 143 points – 1 years ago

bbc.co.uk

Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK::Some tech giants feel they might have reached a "tipping point" due to new legislation.

Looks like is time to move to Europe then, I mean the whole call and write to your senators and representatives only works if they care about their people instead of corporate contributions, the whole vote for someone who cares only works if you have an alternative.

Maybe I'm missing your point, but which senators in particular are relevant to the UK?

I think the commenter meant the saying we have in the US which is call and write your representatives/senators. They were indicating doing whatever the UK version of that appears to be falling on deaf ears as the article states the politicians do not appear to be taking the advise of educated advisors so they are also likely going to ignore the public.

75% of the current Tory MPs are about to lose their seats in the next election so they don't give a fuck. The strategy they seem to be adopting to save their jobs is to swing further to the authoritarian right to try and convince boomers to vote for them.

They won't win by taking the sensible approach to policies like this, so that only leaves incentives to do as much harm as they can in the next year or so in hopes of getting the fascist votes out.

Do as much damage as they can so they can blame it on "the left" and people actually believe them. I've been fighting this battle for years in Sweden. Doesn't seem to matter to people when they're shown black on white that what they are complaining about is a direct result of policy made by the party they're hoping is gonna fix it. What matters to them is that they now "identify" as right leaning. Doesn't help that emphatic and cognitive ability plummets once people turn 60, yet they can vote for another 30-40 years.

yeah this is what I'm thinking. The fact that US corps want to pull out of the UK just makes me respect the UK more... not that they don't have their own problems, EU countries seem to be doing better in general

The issue here is that the UK isn’t doing something good in this one circumstance. You can’t create a man in the middle encryption scheme and hope your the only man in the middle. It fundamentally breaks the baseline security and privacy of the solution.

yeah that shits crazy (tories are crazy) which is why I would never choose the UK if I were to move somewhere european

India is soon bringing similar laws too 🥵

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Aimed at protecting children, it lays down strict rules around policing social media content, with high financial penalties and prison time for individual tech execs if the firms fail to comply.

One clause that has proved particularly controversial is a proposal that encrypted messages, which includes those sent on WhatsApp, can be read and handed over to law enforcement by the platforms they are sent on, if there is deemed to be a national security or child protection risk.

The NSPCC children's charity has described encrypted messaging apps as the "front line" of where child abuse images are shared, but it is also seen as an essential security tool for activists, journalists and politicians.

Microsoft reacted furiously when the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) chose to block its acquisition of the video game giant Activision Blizzard.

Also, we shouldn't confuse "pro-innovation" with "pro-Big Tech" warns Professor Neil Lawrence, a Cambridge University academic who has previously acted as an advisor to the CMA.

Professor Alan Woodward is a cyber-security expert at Surrey University whose has worked various posts at GCHQ, the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency.

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