Though its not simple, is it?
There are approximately 3.3 million young people aged 14 to 18 living in the UK, and approximately 54 million adults aged 18 and over.
The vast majority of these people never install or have installed or will ever install an OS on their laptop; even fewer have done this on a phone. Anyone who expects them to do this is not considering the problem correctly, and is avoiding the actual and painful solution.
Anyone interested in actually solving the problem first moves to identify it. The problem here is not the phone or the operating system; it is Tracksuit Stalin delivering dictates to foreign phone manufacturers to annihilate the privacy of all British Citizens.
Imagine having the government ban the manufacture of gasoline powered cars, and some genius thinking that the answer is
buy a lathe
get some steel
download the blueprints for an engine
build it
download the plans for crude distillation
build a mini refinery in your kitchen
collect the petrol in a garden water butt
AUTOBAHN!
This is the simplistic thinking of many well meaning people, which includes the "JUST USE LINUX!" crowd who have no idea about the scale of this or any other problem, or how to solve problems.
The fact of the matter is that it is up to Google, Apple, and all Social Media to fullyn and very aggressively engage in this war and cut off the UK from the supply of software and phones.
When this happens, at a minimum, all federated logins ("Log in with Gmail") would cease to function. All ApplePay functions would stop. Facebook and Instagram would become Insta Inaccessible. It would be a psychological and market blow without precedent, and super effective.
This defensive move would send everyone in the UK into paroxysms of despair and the INGSOCs would turn on the State being the cause of it all.
Remember; these companies bear significant costs to alter their tools to accommodate Tracksuit Stalin and his Marxist bedfellows, as well as the ethical implications of a permanent stain on their reputations for being collaborators with western totalitarianism and betrayal.
If you think this is not possible, you don't know your history.
In the 1990s the French government was forced to back down over similar bizarre and absurd rules concerning Public Key Cryptography, the math that protects all eCommerce and communications today.
The entire world moved ahead without them, and France was severely crippled and could not compete with its crazy rules in place, so they capitulated and allowed the software to flow freely:
theregister.com/on-prem/1999…
This is exactly what has to happen today. The French government, being run by more civilized men, unilaterally capitulated in the face of the truth. On the other hand, Marxists, being completely irrational, will not capitulate, and so they must be...persuaded when it comes to demonstrating who is really in charge of the intellectual property and assets and users of services provided US companies.
And this is actually about treating people like property, like cattle, in case it hasn't dawned upon you. The Marxists talk about "our children" when they talk about YOUR children. They consider all British Citizens to be the chattel property of the Marxist State, with Tracksuit Starmer as The Daddy.
Anyone who is not thinking about this correctly and how to solve it at scale is not being serious at at time when very serious consideration is an absolute necessity.
Regular followers can insert here the routines about brainwashing, the rebellion in "A boy and his dog", Shammy Czechreburty's Liberty (
google.com/search?lr=&sca_es…), "Big Brother Watch" and all the other deliberately ineffective, purposely failing pressure valve organizations designed to keep INGSOCs inert, in their lanes and ineffective.
And there is no escape to the land of the free for you, because Trump has closed that door.
It's all bad news for INGSOCS, ay nunckle?