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Apple stops iPhone sales to UK due to encryption backdoor requirement.

What would happen? Would the government back down? No doubt if Google, Microsoft and Google joined it would be easier. China wouldn't care but UK is different politically and much smaller to have it's own replacements.

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Ironic that if the big tech companies paid their taxes in the way the rest of us have to, they would have better leverage. Threatening to take millions/billions out of an economy probably gives some clout.

Google, Microsoft, and Google?

Google's so big it needs to be mentioned twice :)

I meant Facebook. If they all stopped their UK services for a few days, they /us might win. FB + Google want to spy on us to sell ads, but I doubt they want the gov to do so. So we have a common enemy.

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