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I don’t think the billionaire technofascists will just stop by their own volition, no matter how nice we ask.
I love your ass
Awww that’s so sweet
I moved my digital stack to Europe
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Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe
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1Password also lets you pick where your data lives - US, Canada or EU. https://support.1password.com/regions/
So do lots of providers. But the US law says if an American has access they can snoop as much as they like wherever the data physically is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
Since 1Password is Canadian, does that apply?
It’s not if an American has access, it’s US based companies, no?
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Do you think that I do? Nationalism existed at the edges of the political spectrum for a long time. I'm saying that outside propaganda tries to actively boost the popularity of those parties.
I think it's easy to blame foreign nations for issues in the local population. Would be great if Europeans take responsibility for once in their life.
You're still attempting to twist my words here. It's not exclusively one or the other. Don't make that claim. Don't pretend that I made it, either.
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This logic applies if you believe it was an honest and fair election.
Doesn’t matter does it? If it wasn’t free of fair it still means the Trump team is the dominant team in America.
The question wasn't which "team" (grow up!) is "dominant," it was whether the election result proves anything about the American public. It does if you think it was an honest and fair election. Simple as that.
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And then you've got a country like the US introducing the CLOUD Act, which "allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil." In other words: physical location isn't enough, the company's HQ being in the US is in itself already a massive risk. The big Ame…
You mean like EU Chat Control?
Mate, if 'whataboutism' is your only defence, you are in a desperate place.
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> While I agree with him that the US is becoming more unpredictable, I don't think the EU is much better, especially with regards to digital things where they can be worse in some ways. It makes a lot more sense if you realize pretty much the sole motivation behind all this digital virtue signaling is "put my data somewhere Trump isn't." Notice how no one really lists contingencies for "what if the EU goes off the ra…
The political systems of the USA and the EU are extremely dissimilar. The US, by virtue of their "winner takes it all" mentality, is evidently pretty vulnerable to a mad leader single-handedly destroying decades of progress. Whereas the EU isn't a single entity, but a federation of 27 member states without central leadership. There is no "EU government", and thus no single corruptible entity that could turn "insane".
The US isn't being single handedly dismantled. The damage is being done by thousands. You are fooling yourself if you think it can't happen in the EU. People have been working on this for decades. Obviously if it were to happen it's not going to be one rogue, but multiple right leaning countries. As long as you believe it can't happen, the easier it becomes to do it.
Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe
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The political systems of the USA and the EU are extremely dissimilar. The US, by virtue of their "winner takes it all" mentality, is evidently pretty vulnerable to a mad leader single-handedly destroying decades of progress. Whereas the EU isn't a single entity, but a federation of 27 member states without central leadership. There is no "EU government", and thus no single corruptible entity that could turn "insane".
The US isn't being single handedly dismantled. The damage is being done by thousands. You are fooling yourself if you think it can't happen in the EU. People have been working on this for decades. Obviously if it were to happen it's not going to be one rogue, but multiple right leaning countries. As long as you believe it can't happen, the easier it becomes to do it.
There sure are thousands involved, but I’m confident a lot of the destruction we see wouldn’t be possible without the savage in chief and the lowering of standards he brought. This man is a political black swan. Things that used to be unthinkable are suddenly happening all the time.
Things can of course turn sideways in the EU too, but it’s massively more difficult to do so without a broad coalition across multiple independent nations.
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citation?
Have to wait for the next Snowden before you get any citations. NSA collaborator or not, the mere existence of something like Cloudflare, which also tries to nudge you into skipping internal http/tls and just use that at the front, makes it highly likely that NSA is already deep in their infrastructure, just like they've been in the past for literally any big technology company in the US. But yeah, zero citations, ze…
Ok, that makes sense. "Likely, based on heuristics" is sufficient to inform your opinions and decisions about Cloudflare. I was hoping you might have something more concrete, but appreciate the thoughtful reply.
Tangent: I found your blog in your profile and liked your post on "Good Taste"^1
Re: I moved my digital stack to Europe
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> where national laws and EU laws conflict EU doesn’t really have laws just directives and regulations it excepts every individual member to implement. Sometimes there are disputes on the implementations that are then fought over in the eu courts but if the member county really doesn’t want to implement or follow them there really isn’t much outside of withholding funds eu can do. (For example see Hungary under Orban…
US states follow US federal law for much of the same reason, because the federal government will withhold funds. We do not use our military to force states to comply with federal law. There’s an entire court system to handle governors who ignore federal law. “Threat of violence”…lmao
> There’s an entire court system to handle governors who ignore federal law.
And if there wasn’t a federal police force (or national guard put under federal control in the more extreme end) to enforce those decisions of such court would they matter in the more extreme cases?
EU cut Orbans funding and still he kept doing what he was doing and as there is no way to for EU to enforce its decisions beyond that he kept doing it until voted out of office.
That is a massive difference between the 2 systems. In EU the individual states are truly independent in that EU can’t force them to do anything.
For the record EU also has the courts etc but when they rule against a country it is pretty much reliant on the courty going “ok I will pay” as the court doesn’t have any means to actually enforce its decision.
Also there is 9 member states in EU that pay more then they receive from the EU so withholding funds from them will just lead to them not paying their fees. Obviously US has states like this too.