Daring FireballJun 20, 2024
A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet; An Encryption Back Door by Any Other Name Would Still Smell Like Shit
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/06/19/signal-eu-encryption-upload-moderation
A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet; An Encryption Back Door by Any Other Name Would Still Smell Like Shit

Link to: https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf

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Show threadShadJun 20, 2024
@daringfireball Where are all the EU defenders here? It's crickets.
Show threaddmitriidJun 20, 2024

@shadash @daringfireball

Literally no one defends this.

It doesn't mean that Gruber's shitty view on actual *useful* legislation is valid.

Guess what, laws are complex, and some of them can be good, and some of them can be bad

Show threadShad
@dmitriid @daringfireball Turning iOS into Android isn't useful. Apple fucked up in letting this situation get out of hand, but that does not mean that the DMA is a well-crafted piece of legislation. Once regulators start talking about the “spirit" of the law, we've left the actual rule of law.
Jun 20, 2024 at 7:35amMastodon for iOS
Show threaddmitriidJun 20, 2024

@shadash @daringfireball

1. No one is talking about turning iOS into Android.

2. Yes, it's entirely Apple's fault. All the damage (whether real or perceived) is entirely self-inflicted

3. The spirit of the law is *always* taken into consideration and of course it doesn't mean that we've left the actual rule of the law, no matter matter what you tell yourself