Apple has released a scaremongering, self-serving warning aimed at the Australian government, claiming that Australians will be overrun by a parade of digital horribles if Australia follows the European Union’s lead and regulates Apple’s “walled garden.” The EU’s Digital Markets Act is a big,...
As an Australian, my government can go for it. None of the tech companies have appreciated the Australian government’s attempts to regulate them
(e.g. trying to make Google and Meta pay for using our journalism).(edit: not a good example)That said, we have had idiots in power from time to time that definitely have worked against us, usually arguing the “security over privacy” nonsense (metadata collection laws, encryption backdoor legislation, etc.).