[raven105x]

Famous last words in a global economy, alongside "tax businesses and the elite". All three are a very delicate balancing act on the global scope of things, between letting the private sector run rampant or rapidly becoming a third world s#%t-hole by nuking your economy. More importantly, this isn't about privacy. This is about protecting information from foreign entities. If Facebook and Google were based in the EU and subject to their governments' control as well as order, I have serious doubts as to whether the GDPR would've ever come to exist. China and Baidu, for example.

[pjmlp]

Global economy is on its way out, as covid, and the return of the cold war, have shown what happens when vital sectors depend on foreign powers.

[raven105x]

While that may be the sentiment, very few countries have the scale required to afford the luxury of acting on such a perspective.

[pjmlp]

It is a matter of time, even if it takes a couple of generations.

Globalization only works when most countries on the same side.