: Brad Smith commits org to facing off with US govt in court to protect them

Certainly the Blacklight test show that Microsoft EU respect way more the privacy (forced by law) than Microsoft US.

  • queermunist she/her
    61•20 hours ago

    Data sovereignty is going to be key to maintaining any sovereignity going forward, it’s so vital to the function of society and the economy that outsourcing it to another country is just giving part of yourself away.

      • queermunist she/her
        20•20 hours ago

        Don’t give up sovereignity, even to allies! Alliances change, but even ignoring that, it’s akin to letting allies run your infrastructure or make your policies or own your water. It’s giving part of yourself away.

        • @[email protected]
          1•11 hours ago

          So, abandon the EU? Abandon the concept of the USA? My comment was tongue in cheek but deep cooperation can be a good thing. It’s part of the reason for the EU. Mutual dependency reduces the risk of war. Isolationism, like the USA is tending towards leads to more war.

          • @[email protected]
            1•1 hour ago

            The EU is not an alliance, since member states give up a good portion of their sovereignty to the block. It’s much closer to a “loosely bound US” than a “NATO on steroids”.

          • queermunist she/her
            8•10 hours ago

            The EU as a whole is an interesting project, but the Eurozone currency bloc was a mistake. All it did was surrender everyone else’s currency sovereignty to Germany and France.

            And death to the US.

            • @[email protected]
              2•7 hours ago

              The currency is only one aspect and a quite recent aspect. Many other aspects of sovereignty are ceded as a condition of joining. However, the pros outweigh the cons.

              The point of the increased cooperation is that everyone is better off, with less risk of war and better protections. The EU sets many minimum standards for goods, services, interoperability and budgets, legislation, courts etc that countries cannot override.

              Death to the US is reductive and inflammatory.

              • queermunist she/her
                2•6 hours ago

                Ask Greece or the other Mediterranean nations if they are better off without their own currency (hint: they absolutely aren’t)

                Death to US is a basic statement of understanding that the US empire is the primary contradiction.

                • @[email protected]
                  1•41 minutes ago

                  Ask Croatia, Ireland, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Slovakia andSlovenia if they are? Hint, they absolutely are.

                  Any union with such a variety of policies will have winners and losers for every project and legislation. Sometimes that will be individuals, sometimes countries. The point is that most are better off in general and that every country is better off from the sum of policies.

                  Countries have less control of their individual exchange rate. That was problematic for Greece, who underwent austerity, successfully I might add as access to the EU wide economy and trade, including (over)tourism is what’s taken them back from the brink.

                  In terms of larger countries, it has been beneficial for France and Germany, less so for Italy, but also less of a problem and less of the fluctuations the lira used to suffer.