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.
Yeah it’s a big problem… especially with Trump declaring everything under the sun as being a threat to the US and an emergency. And now that Microsoft has done this, he now knows it’s possible to cut off other countries from IT services. He has a weapon he likely didn’t know he had before now.
US companies will cave in to him without any hesitation so it doesn’t really matter whether the US President has the authority to do this.
IT departments around the world need to diversify so they aren’t dependent on US tech companies.