I’m not saying anything about this particular case, but this shows that Microsoft and other US tech giants have the power to politically disrupt or hurt a country, or in our case, a whole continent.

If the US/tech giants for whatever reason decide that Europe needs to be punished, they can hurt us really bad by just turning all our digital services down, which could potentially cause chaos depending on the scale.

Europe needs to start using European alternatives to American IT services!

Edit: Just to be clear - I’m not posting this to discuss the Israel/Palestine conflict, or whether what Microsoft did here was right or wrong. I’m trying to raise awareness of a potential dangerous dependancy of American tech, and am trying to promote European tech in a group called Buy European.

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    This is why I just stressed in another thread that “digital sovereignty” and national security both start and end with open source.

    Democratic institutions can’t be built on, and beholden to, for-profit entities; especially foreign ones.

    You (me especially) might agree with Microsoft pulling support for genocide (I do not believe they’ll stop supporting Israel, at all), but the Christian fascist USofA could just as easily use big tech to wage global warfare … they 100% already are. I guarantee it.