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The EU can be shut down with a few keystrokes


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It was quickly forgotten, that's the reality of our attention span and news cycle, and it didn't have a definitive conclusion: A says they did shut down the emails, B says they did not, and nobody is going to spend more time and energy to check into the matter. I'm talking about all the emails, chat, calendars, ticket systems, design tools, observability services, file hosting, synchronization servers, authentication portals, code repositories, and payment providers that are all transiting and storing their data through the other side of the pond. We have been swimming in this situation for so long that we don't even notice the obvious walls of the aquarium we trapped ourselves into: virtually all user devices run American-controlled OS on American-designed chips.

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