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by darylteo 511 days ago
And yet the ubiquity of US tech accounts for the majority of our lifestyle right now. Every US tech company going dark overnight means practically everything goes into a digital dark age.

The US has the world by the proverbial balls. It would take years before everyone can fully divest itself of US tech.

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> Every US tech company going dark overnight means practically everything goes into a digital dark age.

This is a foolishly dangerous assumption. America's premier digital exports are things that many other nations consider entirely unnecessary. The App Store? Illegal in parts of Europe. ChatGPT? Questionably valuable from the start. Facebook, X/Twitter, WhatsApp and iMessage are all NSA informants. We have examples of countries kicking FAANG out of their market, and these countries are perfectly successful in the long run.

You are very focused on the American lifestyle. I suspect you would be very surprised by how little Europe cares about American software businesses.