Now we see another democrat libtard move to kill business in New York and drive it to other states.
When did the Chinese Communist Party take over New York ?
More NY values.
“New Yorkers who have an opinion about the proposal before it goes to assembly can give their ‘aye’ or ‘nay’ via a polling widget on the New York State Senate’s page for the bill.”
And have to give up all their personal info to do so...
Wonder what happens to the folks that vote Nay??
First guns, soda pop, now phones.
These are the New York(Nanny) Values Ted Cruz spoke of.
In other news Apple and Google announce new superstores in New Jersey first exit off each bridge.
So don’t buy it in NY.
Legislators often misjudge voters, leading to legal overreach.
One example was the Democratic Congress in 1994 passing the Assault Weapons ban...costing Democrats Congress that November.
Well, iPhones are more popular than firearms in NYC. Any politician going against Apple is just begging to lose her next election.
Making smartphones a campaign issue is dynamite. Even radical leftwing feminists would torch Planned Parenthood if PP caused smartphones to be banned in NYC.
Smartphones uber alles.
No issue rates higher for female voters than smartphones.
New York’s dictators just don’t like the first amendment or the second amendment or the fourth Amendment.
I’d like to see them try pushing a law like that.
Should help sales in NJ and MASS.
And Cruz is taking flak about dissing New York???
Hey, only criminals and the political resistance need encryption! < /sarc >
Now we see another democrat libtard move to kill business in New York and drive it to other states.
NY values on display
Someone is trying to shake $$$ out of Apple Computer.
They did the same thing with Intel and Microsoft till they toed the line.
Anything that can be encrypted can be un-encrypted................
Now the 1st amendment.
New York politicians are always out front on the gun control issue by claiming that NY State "reasonable" gun controls are rendered ineffective because NY inmates NY citizens can easily bypass their restrictive laws by purchasing guns in a free state.
Now they want to restrict New Yorkers' access to communication devices the same way they restrict access to guns.
Words can’t describe how stupid these people are. Other than this being free speech related, it’s astonishing that they think this will work. They never anticipate changes in behavior and the reactions that *will* occur.
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They could just call Rent-A-Hacker and avoid all of this.
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This will have a number of results. I wonder how many of them the politicians will say these were unexpected and “unintended consequences”. They certainly should expect them.
* People who want secure communications will buy phones out of state (or country if the feds get their way)
* If Apple/Google comply then LG/Samsung/whoever get more market share
* Companies (foreign and some domestic) stop allowing employees to have Apple/Google devices. Another market share change to non-US companies
* If LG/Samsung/whoever’s secure devices are not allowed in NY (or the US), foreign companies stop putting executives in NY offices (or US offices if the feds get their way). It’s happened with web hosting and will happen with cell phones.
Airbus has claimed in European court that the CIA helped Boeing by illegally tapping phones. There is paranoia that the US gov’t will break the law to help US companies and giving the government keys to “secure” communication is not good.
Secure devices are available. Period. That won’t change. I can make one over the weekend from an unsecure channel on a device and open source libraries. People with a reason to avoid US snooping (e.g. ISIS, child porn rings, mafia, etc) will have secure devices - they can hire lots of people who know devices and crypto way better than me.
