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Their best option, and the option they will surely take, is to refuse the request

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How does this play out? They pay a fine? Tim Cook is extradited? Something in between?

lol no way trump would let the UK extradite a US CEO.

Although I agree — and also left the UK in part* because this law was clearly going to blow up like this — I would add that the US and China are about equal now, so look at what gets done to Chinese tech firms that don't play nice.

* the other part being Brexit, whose saga still isn't over given the Reform party opinion poll rating and them wanting to also leave the European Convention on Human Rights which has bad things to say about government surveillance

Trump didn't let the UK extradite someone who killed a teenager in a hit-and-run, never mind a big tech CEO.

Tim Apple also made sure to pay Trump a cool $1 million for protect- I mean the inauguration committee.

How much has the UK given Trump, a man who views the world in terms of transactions?

The Five-Eyes agreement allows the UK and US to share any intelligence material immediately. This is 100% orchestrated with American intelligence agencies to allow them to get American data.

When push comes to shove, the US government will probably side with the UK.

Despots and tyrants are very unpredictable when things don't go their way, but lucky for the rest of the world, the UK is a has been state in full collapse, so whatever tantrum that Starmer will throw at a result will mostly be limited in impact to his own already severely opressed population.

“the UK is a has been state in full collapse”

What the heck are you talking about? Get off X.com, stop slavishly following what Elon Musk thinks, join the real world.

Obviously. The article is about the next step, what if they can't legally refuse, what's next?

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