I thought the EU was moving more towards open source?
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2025
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I thought eu was moving towards digital sovereignty, but money (from washington) speaks louder than words
Nope, the trade deal ditched all of that.
It's almost as though things like this never happened:
Microsoft blocked the email account of Chief Prosecutor of the International Court of Justice after Trump's sanctions. Critics: “We urgently need alternatives.”
US President Donald Trump sanctioned the court in The Hague in February after a panel of ICC judges issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes in the Gaza Strip in November.
The court is virtually paralyzed in its work as a result, writes the AP news agency. One reason for this is that it is heavily dependent on service providers such as Microsoft. They had restricted their work for the court because they feared being targeted by the US authorities.
Khan's bank accounts in his home country of Great Britain were also blocked. Even employees of a civil society organization that plays a central role in gathering evidence and locating witnesses have withdrawn money from US bank accounts to secure it from confiscation.
Why? Why can't we just build our own data centres? Plenty of I.T. people need employment
How are they this careless
To some degree, ALL western governments are functionally equivalent to capitalist dictatorships at the state and federal levels. Sure, you can vote for whomever you want on election day, but 90+% of politicians have been pre-screened, pre-positioned, and pre-financed by the oligarchs and their corporations. They act in their financiers best interests; not the citizens. In capitalism you vote with your wallet, and a small minority hold the majority of the votes.
That's how they are this careless. Because they are paid to be this careless. These are not true leaders. They do not possess strong convictions, morals, or ethics. They are sheeple. Not shepards.
Fuck no, NO MICROSOFT STORAGE CENTERS. NO GOOGLE STORAGE CENTERS.
If the US wants to enforce their Cloud act then fuck that. We will do what we want.
It's so crazy to me that the EU has even let the situation progress this far. It seems like such an obvious espionage risk. Especially since I feel like even a modestly funded grants program for some European tech alternatives would probably be eaten up by devs and VCs in Europe. Like who wouldn't want a chance to become "The Google of Europe"? Maybe wouldn't even need to be grants but some sort of weird competitive prize. Like "first one to build cloud data storage service with 50000 active users gets €1M" (but with a lot more terms and conditions to make it not so rigged of course).
Like the U.S is so antsy about Tiktok, and China and Russia have clearly had major foresight. Everyone laughed at "wannabe" Yandex etc. Treating these services like petty nationalistic off-brands when they're clearly something more. Who's laughing now?
We all bought into the open, global internet because the US government was supposed to be protected from exactly what the GOP are doing.
China, Russia et al. created their firewalls to prevent open and free communication.
In regards to Espionage, it was pretty clear since more than a decade, probably two decades, that the US would not be the beacon of an open internet.
But we're allies, allies would never....
Since Trump (re)entered the Office and started doing his show, and after having read the Project 2025, I naively imagined EU would wake up and decide it was much more than time to steer away from the USA. But that was just me being naive.
That would almost be funny if I wasn't living in the EU witnessing those clowns doing their clown job.
We have the same von der Leyen at the helm that has been caught multiple times in corrupton scandals redirecting public funds to American companies. In Germany, she had the money that was supposed to be there for the Bundeswehr to management consultants, and now there is the Pfizer affair.
We need to get neoliberal thieves out of politics.
Also the same Von Der Leyen who last month 'negotiated' the trade deals that are hugely lopsided in favour of the US, meaning the EU will face much higher tariffs going to US than vice versa. How more people are not calling for her to resign or be forced out is beyond me.