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> Caffarra frames the challenge starkly: "Imagine if Americans woke up one morning to discover that 90 percent of their digital infrastructure was owned by Euro

by palata 11mo ago

> Caffarra frames the challenge starkly: "Imagine if Americans woke up one morning to discover that 90 percent of their digital infrastructure was owned by Europeans. Would they regulate? Or would they march to the White House and demand action: 'Let's build'?" We can't test if they would "demand action" given that the US solutions are already built, but I think we can see that they definitely do regulate whenever something starts competing heavily against US companies. See Huawei, TikTok, DJI. People who call for fewer regulations systematically mean "fewer regulations for me, but regulations for the others when they compete against me". Not just in the US of course.

tracker1 11mo ago
Even then, the US largely resists regulation, even if that is somewhat changing. You can look in terms of essential infrastructure, manufacturing and technology overall beyond software. The U.S. largely has lost control over most of it. And while I'm not in favor of isolation, I find that purely from a security perspective, the US should be capable and in a position to fulfill at least half of its' infrastructure needs domestically, and should be optimized to do so. IMO this should include food, medications, communications and physical infrastructure needs. Not every nation is large or vast enough to do this, the US emphatically is and should take advantage of it. Every nation should work towards the best interest of its' citizens needs, and negotiate with others in good faith assuming they are doing the same. I think that globalist and corporatist mindsets are dangerous in general. that's just my take. Edit: to be clear, I absolutely accept and encourage the EU and EU governments in terms of exercising and increasing a position of independence and sovereignty... I'm only pointing out that the US position isn't exactly as strong as it probably should be either.

by palata 11mo ago

tracker1 11mo ago

Even then, the US largely resists regulation, even if that is somewhat changing. You can look in terms of essential infrastructure, manufacturing and technology overall beyond software. The U.S. largely has lost control over most of it. And while I'm not in favor of isolation, I find that purely from a security perspective, the US should be capable and in a position to fulfill at least half of its' infrastructure needs domestically, and should be optimized to do so. IMO this should include food, medications, communications and physical infrastructure needs. Not every nation is large or vast enough to do this, the US emphatically is and should take advantage of it. Every nation should work towards the best interest of its' citizens needs, and negotiate with others in good faith assuming they are doing the same. I think that globalist and corporatist mindsets are dangerous in general. that's just my take. Edit: to be clear, I absolutely accept and encourage the EU and EU governments in terms of exercising and increasing a position of independence and sovereignty... I'm only pointing out that the US position isn't exactly as strong as it probably should be either.