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by gbear605 20 days ago
Two thirds of Europeans want this - https://www.techpolicy.press/almost-two-thirds-of-europeans-...

> The figures were almost universal across all categories: 62 percent of those surveyed across the five European countries said they favored or had considered replacing US data storage and payment services, while 59 percent of respondents said they would back a change from American video-conferencing companies like Zoom.

(Technically only five countries in the EU in this survey, but the five most populous countries, and presumably other countries generally agree)

1 comments

thanks for sharing .. given tech policy press's editorial perspective, i'd take the result with a grain of salt. … also tbh .. the existence of the poll is almost as interesting as the outcome .. reminds me of taleb's "wittgenstein's ruler" from black swan .. before using a ruler to measure a table, you should probably know whether the ruler itself is trustworthy.

the poll may be telling us as much about the priorities and assumptions of the people asking the question as it does about public opinion… in fact, the need to run a poll on this specific question arguably says more about the agenda behind it than the resuglt itself ..