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this may be an "unpopular" opinion but:

just remember: generally spoken (west-)europe (mostly) consists of vassal-states to the US ... and a handful of unimportant dwarf-states.

and nothing shouts "vassal" more in the early 21st century than being submissive to the big-tech companies of your ... overlord ... hegemony ... land of the free ... "arsenal of freedom and democracy" ... or whatever expression suites your world-view regarding the US.

ihmo. every other self-respecting and self-reliant country/entity of countries developed its own propaganda- and surveillance-technology and blocked the ones from the US to certain extends.

which, if you remove all the fluff, in the end they are - also we tend to refer to them as "web 2.0"- or "social network"-portals, or "search-engines", "some service"- a la "free-mail"-provider and "operating system"-providers etc.

just my 0.02€