Hitting US digital empires is one of the most cost effective strategic weapons Europe has at her disposal.
Not just X.
Meta, Amazon, Google, all of them.
Creating an Europe sized black hole in their data would have a bigger impact than any tariff, ever.
Not just X.
Meta, Amazon, Google, all of them.
Creating an Europe sized black hole in their data would have a bigger impact than any tariff, ever.
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Michiel van Hulten 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
One of the most powerful and effective weapons being deployed against Europe including Ukraine right now is social media. Europe can and must invest in its physical defence capabilities, but it will be costly. Banning X and other apps that seek to subvert our democracy is free. It can be done now.
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Individual countries across the world have blocked one or more of these companies.
And nothing happened.
The sun still rose from the east and set in the west.
For cloud, for example, every critical service needs redundancy even today.
Europe and the rest need to realise that they've fallen by the wayside & promote concerted efforts to catch up with US. Banning is never the solution.
GDPR has become the model of privacy protection outside of Europe, for example.
I worked at one of the hyperscalers and can assure you Europe has had a distinct impact in the way they operate, to the benefit of the citizens.
As for next steps: don’t seem to be required.
Add to that the blocking of US companies, Europe would essentially be back in the dark ages.
I am a professional in the field with 25 years of experience across private, public and third sectors.
GDPR is better than anyone expected. And it works.
I’m sorry, but I have no interest in continuing to entertain your defeatist views.
Acknowledging limitations of one's country/bloc isn't defeatist. Refusing to do so, is.