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UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let’s not even get into the legitimacy of a state calling itself “The UK of GB and NI” when they’d have a tough time proving NI is entirely onboard

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    That’s just every country, isn’t it? Seems like most of Spain has separatist movements; Provence and Brittany and Burgundy retain their sub-national identities; probably some in Tobago want to split from Trinidad. If Northern Ireland joined Eire no doubt the Loyalists would start clamouring to reverse that.

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