Agree - a UK without WhatsApp would be a UK in revolt. Literally everyone I know from teens to oldies organises their lives on it. Lack of WhatsApp would be enough to drag our sorry apathetic lazy non-protesting arses out onto the street
You need targeted messages on social media and savvy campaigns to get people irate. Eg “campaigners stopping a pregnant mother getting to hospital”. That’s what gets people foaming at the mouth. Even then that’s usually just limited to angry replies on social media
It’s also illegal to peacefully protest now
I admire the French for collective physical action.
This govenment is nutorious for it's u-turns. I would be happy to see another in this case.
FB, Apple and Microsoft need to start this campaign ASAP.
As another commenter said, nobody in the UK is going to protest over this. As a downbeaten kingdom (in my opinion), we have no fight left in most of us. People will sigh and move to another app en masse.
The issue I have with all of this is that we think a law is going to make people who break the law not break the law.
The only people who this affects is people who everyday people chatting to their family.
The ones this is claimed to be fighting don't, by and large, use WhatsApp and the like, so will make no difference to how they operate. The one off they catch who does naively use it, does not justify surveilling the entire UK.