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Good for Apple to take a stand.

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Those proposals will never be made law and acted upon.

It’s infeasible nonsense to pander to the Daily Mail reading curtain-twitchers. They’ve had 13 years to try and do this. If they wanted to (and indeed if it was in any way possible), they’d have done it already.

It’ll be just “Vote for us and we’ll make your children safe from nonces and muzzies!” until the end of time.

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We did, but it was pretty clear that they didn’t want to. It was a “shut the swivel eyed loons up” move and backfired in spectacular fashion.

The Prime Minister quit the next day, and the only person that looked pleased was Nigel Farage as he knew he’d never have to deal with it or be held accountable in any way.

The Tories will be annihilated at the next general election. Polling like 20-30% lower than Labour.

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The Tories will be annihilated at the next general election.

And that’s when anti privacy bills will come through. Labour is hyper anti privacy for a long time.

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While I agree that Brexit was a stupidity, I also firmly believe that EU in its current form is equally as stupid.

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I mean the idea behind the EU at least seems solid. The idea behind Brexit on the other hand was…

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Eh, I never thought the GOP would actually overturn abortion rights because it’s such an effective red herring to get their base to keep voting against their best interests, but here we are.

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To be fair, I don’t think the GOP ever planned on it happening either. Their strategies aren’t forward thinking whatsoever and are actively fucking over future members of the GOP.

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Are the Tories so different, though?

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Nonces and muzzies! Terrifying!

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There are a lot of things to hate about Apple, but this I can get behind. Get people using 3rd party messaging apps too! Preferably ones with e2e encryption.

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i can recommend signal

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Plenty of people in the UK/Europe use third party apps already, iMessage is certainly less of a big deal than it is in the US.

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I live in germany and I don’t know a single person that uses SMS or iMessage. Almost everyone here uses WhatsApp.

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WhatsApp isn’t much better. It’s owned by Meta afterall!

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For sure. I live in Asia, and the Green vs Blue bubble thing that probably only exists in the US is just so mind boggling to me.

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Don’t forget canada. So many people here use imessage or whatsapp

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Element is on the App Store

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this is advertising and should be removed

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It’s from the BBC?

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Apple should remove FaceTime and iMessage from North America, so kids stop getting bullied for green texts, despite having a superior phone.

But seriously, why is the kid with a $200 iPhone 5 with a cracked to shit screen laughing at the kid with a $1200 Android phone with features Apple will “invent” 10 years later? All over a green bubble?

Although, it was pretty nice to be able to see which people are lowlife losers on Tinder back in my dating days. They made it very clear how shitty they were when they bashed me for my green bubbles. Saved me a ton of time!

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Although, it was pretty nice to be able to see which people are lowlife losers on Tinder back in my dating days. They made it very clear how shitty they were when they bashed me for my green bubbles. Saved me a ton of time!

jesus, who hurt you?

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So Apple users being shitty and I’m the problem? Lol

https://www.androidauthority.com/green-bubble-phenomenon-1021350/

McDonough even admitted that when her ex-boyfriend switched from an iPhone to an Android phone, she felt that was the moment their relationship “started to go downhill.”

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