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Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK::Some tech giants feel they might have reached a "tipping point" due to new legislation.

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[โ€“] AttackPanda@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the commenter meant the saying we have in the US which is call and write your representatives/senators. They were indicating doing whatever the UK version of that appears to be falling on deaf ears as the article states the politicians do not appear to be taking the advise of educated advisors so they are also likely going to ignore the public.

[โ€“] buzziebee@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

75% of the current Tory MPs are about to lose their seats in the next election so they don't give a fuck. The strategy they seem to be adopting to save their jobs is to swing further to the authoritarian right to try and convince boomers to vote for them.

They won't win by taking the sensible approach to policies like this, so that only leaves incentives to do as much harm as they can in the next year or so in hopes of getting the fascist votes out.