[juandsc]

It's pretty bad, but it's ours. Europe has a lot of critical infrastructure that depends on third parties. We rely far too much on USA and China.

United States could ban the EU tomorrow from using windows causing a huge problem, we also can't produce our own semiconductors. We need technological independence at this point.

[jasonvorhe]

None of that is going to happen the way the EU operates right now. All this talk is just cope with nothing to show for.

[immibis]

The USA already banned The Hague (the metonymous court for international war crimes, not the city) from using Microsoft products. They did this because they knew they and their allies committed war crimes and don't want to be subject to the court, so they decided to impede its functioning as much as they can. This actually happened and is still happening right now.

[jasonvorhe]

So? The EU is all in on the Genocide. I'm not a US apologist since it's quite clear that they're almost all in support of thos genocide but Microsoft shutting down mail accounts is not the same as "the US" doing so.

[immibis]

Huh? The US forced all US companies, of which Microsoft is one, on penalty of prison time for the CEO, to stop doing business with the court.

[jasonvorhe]

I can't find a source for that. All I can find is that Khan's Microsoft account was nuked after an Executive Order by Trump.

[juandsc]

I suspect this reply may be for someone else? I read what I said, I read this and it doesn't make sense to me because I didn't say anything would happen.