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I'd rather Google have my data than the EU

• bigiain 10mo ago
  That's a choice. But it's not everyone's choice. And with <waves hands wildly around>, the non-USA choice is rapidly becoming more popular - at least among the people I know and talk to outside the US.
  • mrits 10mo ago
    EU has always and always will be moving away from US tech
    • bigiain 10mo ago
      FWIW, my perspective is from Australia, not EU.
    • lostlogin 10mo ago
      I’d argue the opposite, that the US is moving away from the rest of the ‘free’ world. ‘Free’ meaning not run by dictators.
      • mrits 9mo ago
        Dictators typically don't win popular votes legitimately. Dictators typically don't have the courts constantly overruling them. Europeans tend to have very little idea how the US government functions. Trump is able to do what he does simply because the people voted for a congress that supports him.
        • lostlogin 9mo ago
          > Dictators typically don't win popular votes legitimately. It also isn’t how you win in the US. The winner of the popular vote was Trump this last round (unlike his first term), but with a far-from-resounding 1.5%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_by_popular_vote_margin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...
          • mrits 9mo ago
            I'm sure this is trivia on the other side of the world but we learn this in 2nd grade
  • drstewart 10mo ago
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    • cromka 10mo ago
      So anyone not aligning with the U.S. is basically in bed with China/Russia? Huh, where have we heard this before? Also, the irony here is you not seeing the ongoing Russia-US alignment.
      • drstewart 10mo ago
        Sorry, can you define non-US for me? Does a Chinese data centre count as a US option, or are people not moving towards "non-US" options? Let's play the game where you slowly whittle your definition of "non-US" to a set of villages in Iceland and Norway
        • ranguna 9mo ago
          I'm not sure what your problem is here. Non-US means anything that is not US. Pickup a map and start enumerating countries, China and Russia are just two of many.
          • drstewart 9mo ago
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            • thunderfork 9mo ago
              You understand that the set is greater than those two countries, thus you understand the problem already.
• wiseowise 10mo ago
  Is this new “I’d rather have Chinese my data than US”?