There is a serious problem with the ongoing balkanization of the internet. EU nations are almost at the point where they rule that european corporations must pr

There is a serious problem with the ongoing balkanization of the internet. EU nations are almost at the point where they rule that european corporations must provide pages in a way that respects european citizen rights and follows european laws. Outrageous! And yes that means they can not integrate services from surveillance states like the USA or China without asking the user first, as the EU government thinks only their agencies should be allowed to run mass surveillance against their citizens without consent. And the EU is not the only one who thinks like that. Pretty soon services controlled by foreign powers will be unacceptable in most of the world. Currently in the USA this is limited to hosting government and military secrets on foreign systems, but i bet if some chinese network would start to creep all over the civilian american web, reporting back to their ministry of national security, the rules would change quickly. For now the USA uses its position to spy on everyone, and i don't mean "nations" or "governments", i mean everyone. American patriots don't see a problem with that, but we know what you do in Utah, and it's a crime against humanity. For the multinational corporations this whole situation of GDPR-vs-CloudAct means massive restructuring, splitting into smaller entities that service regional markets and moving the top level corporate group somewhere with minimal regulation to minimize conflicts. And such legal splits rupture their core business, at some point they can't have chinese hardware in us datacenters being administrated by indian technicians providing services to russian tourists in brazil anymore. Maybe this is the last battle the nation states fight with the global corporations and it instead breaks nationalism in favor of streamlining compliance and getting shit done. I can only hope that the global rules emerging say no to mass surveillance and yes to data privacy, but abusing human rights has always meant power and profits, and so i fear the future is dystopian.