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"Technically infeasible" is code for "we asked the American tech companies for a backdoor, they told us to fuck off and we dont have the cojones to actually ban
by pydry 3y ago
"Technically infeasible" is code for "we asked the American tech companies for a backdoor, they told us to fuck off and we dont have the cojones to actually ban whatsapp". The phrase is only intended to imply that they didn't lose a political battle.
Actual technical feasibility is beside the point. Whatsapp probably already has backdoors they just don't want to hand the keys over to 10 downing street.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoThey couldn't ban WhatsApp even if they wanted to.
- pydry 3y agoThey could it would just make them very, very unpopular. This clearly isn't a hill they're prepared to die on. The fact that they tried this at all signals how weak this government is though, as well as how blithely unaware they are of it.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoNo, they couldn't. They could remove it from appstores and block certain domains, and that's it. They couldn't actually stop people from using it.
- pydry 3y agoThat'd be enough to get people off it and unwind the network effects keeping people on it.