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It's a matter of herd mentality. The more the issue is raised, the more people will be willing to use services from other countries instead of US-based services
by mtgx 9y ago
It's a matter of herd mentality. The more the issue is raised, the more people will be willing to use services from other countries instead of US-based services, which means more non-US companies will gain prominence for certain services, which will encourage even more users to switch to them.
As long as everyone thinks everything is fine if they keep using the same old US services they've always used, none of those steps will happen. Expect to get a push-back from users who prefer continuing to use US-based services so they can justify their own choice.
- dx034 9y agoIf it really changes the business then I'd guess that one of the smaller providers (DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr) relocates their headquarters to a EU country to circumvent that. Could at least bring non-US data centres out of scope.