🚨 BREAKING: The UK Just Ordered Apple to Kill Encryption for 2 Billion People—And They Can’t Even Talk About It 🚨
A global privacy nightmare is unfolding.
The UK government 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.
Here’s the full story & why it’s part of a much bigger power grab. 🧵👇
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1) 1/ Under the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016, Apple was served a Technical Capability Notice (TCN)—forcing them to create a backdoor for encrypted iCloud data.
This is not limited to UK users. It applies worldwide, meaning your private files are at risk, no matter where you live.
🔗@macworld report: macworld.com/article/260251…
2) 2/ Apple is legally forbidden from revealing this order.
If Apple even acknowledges that the UK issued this demand, they could face criminal charges.
This is a secret government order with global consequences.
3/ This isn’t just about the UK (although they are leading the charge in threatening citizens in OTHER countries for violating BRITISH censorship laws!)
If Apple complies, every government in the world will demand the same access—from the US to China to authoritarian regimes.
End-to-end encryption would be effectively dead.
4/ Apple’s Choice:
🔓 Comply & weaken encryption globally
🚪 Refuse & withdraw services from the UK
WhatsApp & Signal faced similar threats last year and vowed to leave the UK rather than compromise security.
Will Apple do the same?
🚨Watch the heated discussion between Damian Collins, director of CCDH (architect of the UK Online Safety Bill), and Signal’s CEO: youtube.com/watch?v=E--bVV…
5/ Why This Matters:
☑️Encryption protects financial data, health records, personal security (e.g. where you live or work), and private conversations.
☑️Governments always say they need backdoors for national security—but history shows they’re used for mass surveillance.
☑️Once a backdoor exists, hackers, rogue employees, and other governments WILL find it.
6/ The UK is trying to dominate the global surveillance & censorship landscape.
The UK is part of Five Eyes (UK, US, Canada, Australia, NZ), but notably, the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have supported strong encryption to mitigate cyber threats.
Yet, the UK stands alone in its war on encryption.
7/ The Free Speech Crackdown 🛑
This isn’t just about encryption—it’s about control.
Governments worldwide are criminalizing dissent and censoring free speech, using tech companies as their enforcement arms.
8/ This ties into the UK’s broader, GLOBALLY ORCHESTATED censorship agenda:
⚠️ The Online Safety Bill criminalizes encrypted messaging & forces platforms to scan private messages.
⚠️ The Digital Services Act (EU) gives governments the power to shut down online content they don’t like.
⚠️ Leaked US-UK documents show direct coordination between UK intelligence & the Biden administration to censor online speech:
🚨Learn more about the global plot to adjudicate and criminalize free speech involving bilateral engagement with 20+ countries, and coordination with NATO and the G7: greenmedinfo.com/content/americ… (@America1stLegal's CDC lawsuit revealed this plot)
9/ Meet the architects of speech policing: CCDH 🕵️♂️
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)—a UK intelligence-backed group—has been a driving force behind global censorship.
They were caught:
🔥 Running “black ops” to suppress RFK Jr.’s presidential campaign.
🔥 Leading the "Kill Musk’s Twitter" directive, trying to shut down free speech on X.
🔥 Labeling 12 private US citizens as the “Disinformation Dozen” to justify mass censorship.
🔗 Reclaim the Net Investigation: reclaimthenet.org/black-ops-how-…
The same UK group behind mass censorship also helped design the UK’s anti-encryption policies via the UK Online Safety Bill passed in 2024.
10/ The Pattern is Clear:
1️⃣ Governments create "safety" laws to justify surveillance.
2️⃣ They pressure tech companies to enforce censorship.
3️⃣ Once encrypted services are gone, nothing is private anymore.
This is the biggest attack on digital freedom in history.
And most recently @elonmusk and @lindayaX appear to have taken the bait by backing the Kids Online Safety Bill (KOSA) - a 'child safety' bill trojan horse for draconian censorship: sayerji.substack.com/p/alert-elon-m…
11/ What Can We Do?
🔹 Support companies that refuse to build backdoors (Signal, ProtonMail, etc.).
🔹 Push for legislation that protects encryption & free speech.
🔹 Stay informed & spread awareness—governments count on secrecy to push these policies through.
🔹 Follow and support privacy and internet freedom organizations such as: @G_W_Forum @FFO_Freedom @ReclaimTheNetHQ @standforhealth1 @ChildrensHD @brownstoneinst @anhcampaign @FreeWCH @TheNHF
12/ This is the ultimate power grab: controlling all digital communication.
If Apple caves, every other platform will be forced to follow.
📌 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).
This is a global effort to control what people can say, share, and store privately.
13/ The Final Stand: Will You Comply or Resist? ⚔️🚨
They want total control—your speech, your privacy, your elections. This is the defining battle of our time. 🛑🔒
🇬🇧 UK’s war on encryption = Global censorship blueprint.
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1/🚨 Most Americans think the government's censorship of its own citizens ended when the Biden administration signed a court order admitting it happened last month.
It didn't.
The most dangerous part of the architecture was left completely untouched.
Here's what the Consent Decree actually said — and what it didn't. 🧵
2/ WHAT THE CONSENT DECREE ACTUALLY IS
On March 23, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice signed the Missouri v. Biden Consent Decree.
It is a ten-year permanent injunction.
It prohibits the Surgeon General, the CDC, and CISA from threatening social media platforms to suppress constitutionally protected speech.
The government admitted — in writing, in federal court — that it had been doing exactly that.
✅ Direct government pressure on platforms
✅ Three specific agencies
✅ Five specific platforms
✅ The named plaintiffs in that case
Here is what it does not cover:
❌ Foreign NGOs funded by US government money
❌ The organizations that published the fraudulent reports
❌ The pipeline from NGO → government → platform → deplatforming
❌ Cross-border legal action against American citizens for protected speech
1/ 🚨 On Tuesday, the man who put my name on a list that a US President used to call me a killer testifies before Parliament — under oath — for the first time in his life.
His mentor was just arrested for leaking government secrets to Jeffrey Epstein.
The US government has already admitted the censorship was real.
Now he has to answer for it. 🧵👇
2/ Morgan McSweeney co-founded the Center for Countering Digital Hate in a room above a pub in Brixton.
He built it to destroy Jeremy Corbyn.
When that was done, he turned it on America.
Same playbook. Same people. New targets.
3/ In 2021, President Biden stood before cameras and declared:
"These 12 people are out there giving misinformation. It's killing people."
He was reading from a CCDH report.
Facebook's own internal analysis later found the core statistic was exaggerated by an astronomical factor of 1,300.
No correction. No retraction. No accountability.
Members of the 'disinformation dozen' who spread "missing information" without which informed choice was not possible include: @DrBenTapper1 @BusyDrT @RizzaIslam @TyCharleneB @sayerjigmi @RobertKennedyJr @mercola @ErinHNN
1/🚨A UK visa, for most people, takes weeks or months. An expedite request from a convicted sex offender would not, in any normal world, help.
In December 2012, a British investor emailed Jeffrey Epstein:
"I've heard back from No. 10 — the Paris embassy isn't able to sort this out."
The Prime Minister's office then expedited the visa in 3–4 days. 🧵👇
2/ The British investor was Ian Osborne — a private fund manager, longtime informal adviser to David Cameron, and a regular visitor to 10 Downing Street.
Cameron was the sitting Prime Minister.
The email was sent just before midnight London time on December 5, 2012. (EFTA00659281) justice.gov/epstein/files/…
3/ Osborne's email continued:
"What the PM's team has offered is when [NAME] is in New York, i.e. next week, to have the Consulate-General take care of it in 3-4 days. I'm in touch with Danny Lopez, the new HM Consul-General..."
Danny Lopez: Britain's senior diplomat in New York.
1/ How Jeffrey Epstein tried to get Bill Gates the Nobel Peace Prize.
The federal archive has the receipts. 🧵👇
2/ October 3, 2012. 11:51 PM.
Bill Gates emails his science advisor about Alfred Nobel.
"I think Nobel didn't favor peace just because it was
peace — I think he favored it because it improved human lives."
Five hundred words. Pinker. Rwanda. Then he went to sleep.
Two days later his science advisor forwarded it to Jeffrey Epstein's Gmail.
1/🚨 BREAKING: Bill Gates will testify before the @GOPoversight chaired by Representative @JamesComer on June 10.
The date is set. The federal archive is public. And the man who signed a legal agreement with a convicted sex offender — then thanked him for advice to "minimize documents" — will face structured questioning for the first time.
Here's what the committee will have in front of them. 🧵👇
2/📋 The day before Gates testifies, the committee will interview Lesley Groff — Epstein's executive assistant, indicted on federal sex trafficking conspiracy charges.
Groff received this scheduling note from Epstein in 2010:
3/ ✈️ March 1, 2013: Gates flew to Epstein's Palm Beach estate on Epstein's private plane — without his security team. Five people across two staffs coordinated it.
That evening, Epstein wrote: "Im in palm beach, with bill gates at the house."
Next morning, publicist Peggy Siegal replied:
"Where is Melinda?"
👉Learn more: EXCLUSIVE: "Bill Was Fun" — The Federal Record of Bill Gates's Trip to West Palm Beach — and What Came Next sayerji.substack.com/p/bill-was-fun…