Europe continues to prove Vice President JD Vance correct: “In Britain, and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.”
Last week, France forced the “right-wing” TV channel C8 to shut down for “repeated failures to respect human rights and protect minors.”
In the U.K., the government demanded once too many times that Apple give them the encryption key to people’s iCloud accounts. In response, Apple turned off end-to-end encryption for British users so that the government cannot force them to hand it over.
“We are gravely disappointed that the protections provided by ADP will not be available to our customers in the UK given the continuing rise of data breaches and other threats to customer privacy,” Apple said in a statement, adding: “As we have said many times before, we have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services and we never will.”
In Scotland, this 74 year-old woman was arrested and fined for peacefully standing with a sign that said: “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.” She was holding that sign too close to an abortion clinic. At least they cuffed her from the front and not behind her back.
