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Governments across Europe are looking to rely less on American tech providers.

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[โ€“] danekrae@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

Whatโ€™s behind Europeโ€™s efforts to ditch US software in favor of sovereign tech

america...

[โ€“] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 28 points 3 months ago

US is an unreliable partner who have shown they can't be trusted to not abuse their hegemony. Simple as that.

[โ€“] kubica@fedia.io 23 points 3 months ago

In short, independence so they can't cut off services and access as they please.

[โ€“] HeroicBillyBishop@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

its so ol'donnie baby raper cant access their data with a click

[โ€“] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Well there's that, but they already have the data. The greatest immediate threat is the crippling economic warfare the American nazi party can wage via the big tech monopoly, and they've already proven there is no bottom to the depths of their depravity. They are simultaneously the worlds largest terrorist org, and largest organised crime enterprise.

If they wanted to invade or cripple an EU economy, the easiest way would be to force push an update that bricks every Microslop, Apple, and Android device in the country, &/or disable their access to AWS, Azure, GCP, and Cloudflare. That would disable 99% of end user devices and most web services.

They don't have my files. Not giving them to OneDrive.

[โ€“] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

Not trying as hard as possible to become vassal states??

[โ€“] XTL@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

Whatโ€™s behind Europeโ€™s efforts to ditch US software in favor of sovereign tech

Sense.

[โ€“] tirateimas@lemmy.pt 6 points 3 months ago

Let's get the momentum going...

[โ€“] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago