Apple is helping the British Fascists suppress free speech and helping them to spy on their citizens.
Remember all that posturing from Apple some years ago when the FBI wanted to see inside a terrorist's cell phone?
Lots of speeches and moral posturing, and now they have capitulated to a government even more intrusive and less respecting of rights than our own.
Didn’t they do something similarly in China? Or was that Google? Regardless this can be repeated now in any country including the US given the lean of the regime.
“So Apple *IS* a bunch of cowards who will bow to government Fascism, so long as it isn’t our government wanting to see terrorist data.
Apple is helping the British Fascists suppress free speech and helping them to spy on their citizens.”
I think you are misreading the situation. The UK is demanding a backdoor so they can decrypt user’s encrypted, private data. Apple fought that, lost, and instead of providing the backdoor is just killing the whole service.
This is the best they can do in a bad situation. It tells people in the UK their data is not private. There is no illusion about it. It allows people to make an informed choice about their data.