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The most maddening thing is how little other governments seem to care about it it. Forcing windows, android, and ios on your citizens and gifting silicon valle
by Schroedingersat 4y ago
The most maddening thing is how little other governments seem to care about it it.
Forcing windows, android, and ios on your citizens and gifting silicon valley a constant worldwide surveillance feed is incredibly harmful to long term interests. Forcing every business to use office365 to interact with any government office is a 1% income tax gifted to the american economy.
- concinds 4y agoThe U.S. would never allow the EU to ban American web services to try to foster European innovation like China's doing. They have strong ways to enforce this including by starting a trade war. But there's no reason for countries like India not to do it. Russia did it; it's not just massive countries that can get away with it.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoNo need to ban it. Just stop enforcing it by only allowing access to government services (or any services during covid) via apps only on play and ios stores. Stop mandating teams for business communication with any government department. Stop publishing things in closed formats. Could even mandate that any inter-operation occurs over open protocols with at least two implementations (many governments even have this policy for essential systems, they just forget to enforce it around microsoft).