It's hard to see this as anything other than creeping fallout from tech's willingness to accomodate requests & demands from China over the last decade. What's t

It's hard to see this as anything other than creeping fallout from tech's willingness to accomodate requests & demands from China over the last decade. What's the difference between complying with China's demands that you share encryption keys or scrub search results and letting Russia push pre-installed apps on your users? Can the US forbid end-to-end encryption? Can China? Can France? If the UAE government tells Apple to pre-install Totok or GTFO, who really thinks that Apple isn't going to GTFO? What about the FBI asking for a backdoor in iMessage? The binary choice here was between letting authoritarian governments push restrictions or not. Now that pretty much all of tech has started down this slope it's hard to see where we could draw a line in the sand.