> Apple doesn’t control the exit point (that’s cloudflare?) I mean they do, Apple can switch provider at any point, and Apple is the legal entity controlling t

> Apple doesn’t control the exit point (that’s cloudflare?) I mean they do, Apple can switch provider at any point, and Apple is the legal entity controlling the service. Cloudflare will do whatever Apple contracts them to do. Any legislation will target Apple. The UK Online Safety Bill will almost certainly require Apple to censor it. I don't think it's at all certain such legislation would apply to Cloudflare - Cloudflare do not offer a consumer service that I buy (well, they do offer 1.1.1.1 but that has a fairly small amount of users and is irrelevant). > Finally you can always just turn it off - it asks you the first time as well, it is explicitly opt in, and isn’t available in countries that have strict censorship laws. The problem is that Apple are going to have to restrict the number of countries a lot or start doing more control. The US is very unusual for example in not requiring ISPs to block access to the Pirate Bay. European law is pretty settled that all member states need ISPs to do blocking in trademark cases in some circumstances. And yes, a VPN provider already bypasses this, but laws tend to ignore when they don't work for 5% of the population, in a way legislators suddenly can't ignore when 40% of the population is sailing past the blocks.