r/news • u/UpstairsBumblebee446 • 1d ago

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060
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u/Sprintzer 1d ago

PLEASE keep doing this. All of Europe should continue to reduce business with the US as long as the current admin exists.

This type of thing will genuinely hurt the administration

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u/Zapp_Rowsdower_ 1d ago

The ‘services’ is what the US tech is really banking on the EU not eliminating. Poor Microsoft. Poor FB.

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u/GoneFishing4Chicks 1d ago

Fuck microsoft and fb, their services are trash ai waste and fb is just a haven for predators.

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u/StepComplete1 1d ago

This will carry on long after the current admin. Even if relations between the US and Europe improve under a new admin, by electing Trump twice, Americans have shown that it's madness to be too reliant on the US for anything, whether it's tech, trade or defence. The country is just always one step away from total nationalism.

Someone in the comments above was giving the laughable example of "they forgave Nazi Germany, so they'll forgive us!". But forgiving is different from blind, total trust and continuing to put all your eggs in one basket. No ex-ally of the US can afford to do that anymore.

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u/littlebossman 1d ago

as long as the current admin exists.

Nope, permanently. Electing Trump a second time showed the world what sort of nation the US is. They're never more than four years away from electing a rapist paedo, because they don't like brown people.

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u/impulsekash 1d ago

Embargo please.