Comment by Vespasian

11 hours ago

As others gave said the UK left the EU 10 years ago.

Chat control (which isn't (yet) a thing) would not in fact lead to the outcome you describe.

Any company would be forced to comply or get the boot from EU market. Apple and Google will happily enforce that and that's probably good enough initially.

US Vendors could also decide to create an EU only version of their services.