[boc]

Again, protectionism is a dangerous road. If the EU blocked American tech companies, the US would retaliate in kind. While it's possible that Europe could eventually become self-sustaining if given a friendly environment to grow indigenous tech companies, losing access to every major OS overnight (as just a small example of the potential retaliation) would be a pretty devastating experience for Europe. You can't replace Microsoft, Apple, and Google overnight.

[tonyedgecombe]

It already exists, there are tariffs for American vehicles entering Europe and the US for instance.

>losing access to every major OS overnight

That wouldn't really be in America's interest would it?

[emteycz]

I don't think we would lose access to the Finnish operating system Linux, also

[sgerenser]

I’m assuming this is a joke but Linus Torvalds is a US citizen, and the Linux Foundation is based in the US.