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  • UK secretly orders Apple to let it spy on iPhone users worldwide

    DAalseth said:
    Xed said:
    Apple could also just pull out of the UK entirely, fire all their UK employees, and stop buying UK goods and services.  I know they won't, but feck all fascist governments.
    By that logic, they need to pull out of the USA immediately. 
    Because Apple is in the US that means they should prop up fascism and a police state?
    Not directed at you personally, but people need to learn what fascism is. Fascism is a type of authoritarianism but not authoritarianism is fascism. 

    Fascism is a far-right system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

    The U.K. is capitalist, and we can certainly argue that this would be a stringent movement control the rest of the definition doesn't fit at all. There U.K. isn't governed by the far-right, it isn't a dictatorship, there isn't violent suppression of opposition and the list goes on. So, yeah, not fascism at all 
    “Agreed, the UK isn’t there. The US however…”
    While what Trump is doing is disturbing, illegal and authoritarian, he is not a fascist. All of the points made by the original poster still apply in the US.
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