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Including the US. I don't want to be dependent on this stuff any more than anybody else does.
by analog31 9mo ago
Including the US. I don't want to be dependent on this stuff any more than anybody else does.
- lateforwork 9mo agoExactly. I live in the US but I'd like to switch from US apps and services controlled by US oligarchs such as Elon Musk and Zuckerberg to European alternatives.
- testing22321 9mo agoThen you should do that. I just moved all my hosting and domains out of the US after 15 years of good service.
- johanneskanybal 9mo agoThis is the point of time in history where the people usually start a revolution. Do that.
- SpicyLemonZest 9mo agoThis is one of the things where the nature of the modern United States makes it hard. I routinely go around telling people that the current regime in Washington is illegitimate, nobody should obey them or listen to their lies, and that I look forward to the day they're ripped from their thrones and tossed in prison. In most places and times saying that would make me a revolutionary, but in the US it's not even arguably a crime.
- marcosdumay 9mo agoUsually, it's a crime when people do stuff. Complaining that the government is bad is free in almost all democracies.
- SpicyLemonZest 9mo agoWhat counts as doing stuff? Minneapolis has been hitting the streets for days trying to chase a major federal agency out of Minnesota, a cause which I and my elected representatives publicly support. But it's a huge country, Minneapolis is thousands of miles away from me, and outside of airport security I haven't personally seen an agent of the federal government in years. To me, following federal agents around blowing whistles at them and yelling that they'd better leave town seems at least a little revolutionary - the feds certainly think so, they murdered someone for doing it this morning. But it’s also unambiguously permitted under US law.