> Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes

Apple already did set that precedent during last year with their responses to the EU DMA.

In fact I find the difference in how they handle the two very telling.

Terrible yes, but given Musk-X-Brazil, at this point the Rubicon of "setting" such standards has already been crossed.

(Even if the result was Musk being humiliated).

They could have done like Telegram in Russia and said that they will not care about that and work on ways to bypass any firewall that could setup the authority to block it.

As Signal are doing here, they could have refused to do business (at least, with iCloud) in that country. That's a far bigger pushback than simply capitulating to removing a relatively unknown feature.

To be clear, if they did this and the UK gov called their bluff, it'd affect me personally, but I'd rather that than swinging open the backdoors

Not put absolute profit over principles? Or at least don't advertise they do?

> Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes

I don't know... what else could Apple have done? Hard to determine what else they could have done besides turn off the feature in a thread on another company not just turning off a feature, but leaving a country entirely.