UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus

Re:UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus by slickrick216 on Monday April 18, 2022 @06:39PM (#31077560)

The UK sells weapons. Should they be blamed for anyone who is affected by them? Regardless of your own opinion they would argue no. So they can’t be hypocritical.

UAE on the other hand is a decrepit money laundering people smuggling cesspit and should face the full brunt of Iran/Russia style sanctions.

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Re:UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus by axlee on Monday April 18, 2022 @06:42PM (#31077585)

I can guarantee you that if the UK was supplying weapons to a country that was using them against its own allies, there would be an incident, and at the very least they would stop supplying them. There is no hypcrisy - yet.

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Re:UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus by stefan_ on Monday April 18, 2022 @07:03PM (#31077798)

These trojans do not run without central C&C, already proven in the past to be run by NSO. Selling a weapon is not travelling into a war zone and firing it off on behalf of who hired you; that's what a mercenary does, under punishment of death.

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Re:UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus by Proudmuslim on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:21AM (#31096510)

The UK is where the world's dictators and corrupt politicians hide their money. Does that mean you think that the UK should "face the full brunt of Iran/Russia style sanctions"? Take your double standards elsewhere.

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Re:UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus by slickrick216 on Thursday April 21, 2022 @01:26PM (#31112479)

I agree. Not double standards.

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