🚨 The UK Just Ordered Apple to Kill Encryption for 2 Billion People—And They Can’t Even Talk About It
💣 What happens when a single government can dictate global privacy laws? The UK’s secret order to Apple is a wake-up call for the world.
A global privacy nightmare is unfolding before our eyes. The UK government has secretly ordered Apple to backdoor encrypted iCloud storage worldwide—but Apple is legally forbidden from revealing this order, or they face criminal charges.
This affects 2 BILLION USERS and represents the most significant assault on encryption in history. This isn’t just about Apple; this is about the UK’s expanding role in policing speech, controlling digital information, and enforcing censorship beyond its borders.
🔥 The Investigatory Powers Act: A Global Kill Switch for Encryption
Under the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016, UK authorities can demand that tech companies remove encryption and provide government access to user data. In January 2025, Apple was served a Technical Capability Notice (TCN), which forces them to create a backdoor for all encrypted iCloud data—worldwide.
Apple’s only options:
Comply and weaken encryption for 2 billion users.
Refuse and risk being forced to exit the UK market, as WhatsApp and Signal have previously threatened to do.
❌ The UK’s Censorship Empire: Controlling Global Speech and Privacy
This move is not just about surveillance—it’s about controlling speech and digital freedom worldwide. The UK government has a long history of aggressively pushing speech control and information suppression, setting dangerous precedents for authoritarian control over online platforms.
The Online Safety Bill criminalizes encrypted messaging and forces platforms to scan private messages.
The Digital Services Act (EU) gives governments the power to shut down content deemed unacceptable.
Leaked US-UK documents reveal direct coordination between UK intelligence and the Biden administration to censor online speech.
🕵️♂️ Meet the Architects of Speech Policing: The CCDH
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)—a UK intelligence-backed organization—has been instrumental in global censorship efforts. They have:
🔥 Led the "Kill Musk’s Twitter" directive, attempting to suppress free speech on X. 🔥 Orchestrated black ops against RFK Jr., trying to silence his presidential campaign. 🔥 Labeled 12 private US citizens as the "Disinformation Dozen" to justify censorship and deplatforming.
This same organization was behind the drafting of the UK Online Safety Bill, which is now being used to justify the encryption backdoor. The UK’s censorship model is exported globally, and tech platforms are being forced to comply with these draconian policies.
🔗 Reclaim The Net Investigation
🌎 The Bigger Picture: UK’s Global Playbook for Digital Control
This is bigger than Apple. The UK is positioning itself as the global enforcer of digital speech and surveillance laws. By demanding an encryption backdoor, they are effectively dictating privacy laws to the entire world.
📌 The UK’s Global Playbook: 🔹 A backdoor to encryption (Investigatory Powers Act). 🔹 A government-linked censorship network (CCDH). 🔹 A speech-policing framework that extends worldwide (Online Safety Bill).
⚠️ Final Warning: The Future of Digital Freedom is at Stake
This is the most serious attack on encryption and free speech in history. If Apple caves, every other platform will be forced to follow. Governments around the world will demand the same access, and the last vestiges of digital privacy will be erased.
📣 We are at a crossroads:
If we don’t fight back, encryption is gone.
If we don’t push back, speech is controlled.
If we don’t resist now, privacy will never exist again.
✊ What Can We Do?
✅ Support companies that refuse to build backdoors (Signal, ProtonMail, etc.). ✅ Demand that tech companies stand up to censorship laws. ✅ Spread awareness—governments rely on secrecy to push these laws through. ✅ Follow and support privacy advocacy organizations fighting against digital authoritarianism, such as Reclaim The Net, Mike Benz’s Foundation for Freedom Online, and the non-profit Global Wellness Forum which I co-founded.
This isn’t just about Apple—it’s about the future of free expression, digital privacy, and the open internet. If we lose encryption, we lose everything.
🔗 Stay informed and take action before it's too late. Make sure to subscribe to the Global Wellness Forum to stay up to date on ways you can push back against these privacy violations.
Follow the developing story and engage the conversation on X; Elon retweeted my X thread “This is crazy” here: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1888575812594487532
Apple must choose which Is more important to them and their sales - UK or US. Stop all sales in the UK (rather than accept their 'control') and worldwide sales will go up. People everywhere appreciate having their privacy protected and vice versa; cave in to these libelous liars just so you can sell in UK - and the US (plus many of the 2 billion affected worldwide) - will look elsewhere for computer purchases. A boycott of Apple products is also likely. I doubt if UK sales will match the loss of angry worldwide markets. Time to dump these lying, censoring, anti-free speech UK dogs in the 'bin'!
Apple can’t comply with this nonsense unless they choose to be part of the digital control grid. It would not be coercion, it would be collusion. Apple’s customers (including me) will need to respond by discontinuing their use of Apple products and find alternatives, such as LINUX and Graphene OS for smart phones. This is a line in the sand that can’t be crossed without repercussions.