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upvoteby yndoendo9 hours ago|
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Even as a US citizen ... I have started to decouple from US business that hold my data.
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upvoteby toomuchtodo9 hours ago|
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Same. I don't trust the US as much as the rest of the world does not trust them. They want control with little to offer for it. My data and compute is safer offshore at this time.
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upvoteby tartoran5 hours ago|
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Control is one part of it. The other concerning part is leaks and sharing it with third parties.
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upvoteby nxobject2 hours ago|
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The two are linked, sadly – data brokers are a good way to conduct mass profiling.
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upvoteby thegreatpeter9 hours ago|
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where did you move your blog to? hetzner?
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upvoteby rustyhancock9 hours ago|
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But we have our own issues outside of the US.

They reality is the average person is between a rock and a hard place.

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upvoteby microtonal9 hours ago|
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Major US tech businesses are making money with analytics/ads though, so they would never roll out end-to-end encryption in a serious way. At least outside the US, a lot of E2E-encrypted services are popping up (Proton, Zeitkapsl, etc.).

I don't trust the small number of E2E US services at all. E.g., some of the companies that were/are in PRISM seem to have very convenient 'accidental' backdoors. E.g. WhatsApp doing backups on Google Drive without encryption by default on Android or Apple doing iCloud backups of iMessage that are not E2E encrypted unless you enable ADP. And even if you are wise enough to enable E2E in both cases, most people that you communicate with don't, because they use the defaults, so it's game over anyway.

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upvoteby nozzlegear2 hours ago|
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There were four other countries in Five Eyes, and right now the UK and Australia have laws on the books that are ostensibly worse than the Cloud Act in the US if you're a foreign company with data hosted in those countries. That includes me, an American, who uses the Australian email service Fastmail.
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upvoteby rustyhancock7 hours ago|
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On the other hand Apple can no longer off ADP in the UK.[0]

That some businesses are not trustworthy seems less a concern for me, than that many governments would like to make all business insecure by design.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/122234

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upvoteby tick_tock_tick3 hours ago|
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I mean Europe just fundamentally doesn't think privacy should apply to the government.
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upvoteby inglor_cz8 hours ago|
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In the EU, we have been fighting a bitter battle against Chat Control X.Y for some time now.

That won't change until Ursula von der Leyen goes. Her nickname in Germany (since 2009) is Zensursula, because she attempted to build a pan-German firewall.

She failed in Germany, but she may yet succeed in the entire EU.

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upvoteby joe_mamba9 hours ago|
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This. When I look at why my life sucks and is on hard difficulty mode, it's not because I use US tech instead of EU tech. Most people and companies have bigger economic challenges right now trying to keep the lights on, than data sovereignty and domestic alternatives. My company just had a 3rd round of layoffs and its wasn't due to lack of EU SW.
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upvoteby microtonal8 hours ago|
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The lack of data sovereignty does have large geopolitical consequences though. Without data sovereignty of EU government services and businesses, the US can blackmail EU continuously or even worse, in the case of e.g. a conflict over Greenland, cause chaos by turning off access to US tech. So for the EU, tech sovereignty is a matter of life and death.

Also, a lot of crap in Western countries is caused by tech broligarchs enriching themselves in favor of workers en destroying democracy for tech feudalism. So if we can bring down their sales Tesla-style, I'm all in for it.

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upvoteby joe_mamba8 hours ago|
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>Also, a lot of crap in Western countries is caused by tech broligarchs enriching themselves in favor of workers en destroying democracy for tech feudalism.

Not true. The reason my Col is off the charts, salary low and housing unaffordable is due to EU central bank printing too much money leaving us holding the bags, government's zoning laws making housing expensive and them importing millions of immigrants despite record unemployment numbers to put downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on housing. None of this is done by US tech bros, it's all done by EU rulers and elites.

US tech bros is an orthogonal issue that distracts from the core issues.

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upvoteby hgomersall8 hours ago|
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The quantity theory of money is trivially shown to be nonsense just by considering what happens to savings (i.e. nothing). You need to up your analysis if you want to truly understand.
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upvoteby philipallstar8 hours ago|
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What happened to savings in Zimbabwe when they printed trillions of dollars? Did that do anything to what those savings would buy?
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upvoteby hgomersall7 hours ago|
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Here is a discussion of Zimbabwe more complete that I'm likely to write in a comment on HN: https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=3773
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upvoteby joe_mamba8 hours ago|
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You've made accusations but have not brought arguments to support that my take on EU leaders and elites being the ones fucking us, our CoL and purchasing power, is wrong.

And savings absolutely did eventually get obliterated by excessive Covid money printing, what are you on about?

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upvoteby hgomersall8 hours ago|
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I've not made any accusations, nor do I think that the elites are not to blame. I said that "money printing" is not the problem here. The reason it's not the problem is because the quantity of money simply reflects savings. By focussing on "money printing", you're missing the actual problems. Arguably, that's the point, since the elite tend to do well when money is considered a scarce commodity.

Sure, spending might cause inflationary effects, but that's orthogonal to quantity (flows not stocks), but then economics is the science of confusing stocks with flows.

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upvoteby Cold_Miserable6 hours ago|
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"Currency printing" and inflation are exactly the same thing.
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upvoteby nozzlegear2 hours ago|
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> I think a lot of our issues are due to a lack of competition.

I think a lot of our issues are due to a lack of cooperation.

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upvoteby PlatoIsADisease6 hours ago|
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>Unipolar worlds are safer than Bipolar. Multipolar is extremely dangerous.

Do you want more people dead? I assume you didn't know how dangerous the world is without a hegemon..

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upvoteby TitaRusell9 hours ago|
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The competition is China and the US is becoming so hysterical about it that I genuinely hope that the PLA is prepared for a nuclear first strike.
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upvoteby kyboren9 hours ago|
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