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Another European agency shifts off US Tech as digital sovereignty gains steam

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245 points CrankyBear | 5 comments | 31 Oct 25 16:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.895s | source
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mentalgear ◴[31 Oct 25 17:38 UTC] No.45774588[source]▶
Why would ANY global business still rely on U.S. Tech? The U.S. government, through their executive orders and dissolving of the separations of powers, has demonstrated its ability to unilaterally disrupt or shut down private technology services at will. How can any business justify depending on U.S.-based tech infrastructure when its access could vanish overnight on a political whim by an unstable president?

If there is no rule of law, capital, talent and trust are flowing out of that country - for good reason.

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drstewart ◴[31 Oct 25 18:07 UTC] No.45774906[source]▶
EU is the entity with fascist Hungary and Slovakia having veto powers, isn't it? The one where "free" countries like Denmark push for encryption backdoors?

I think I'll avoid them - for good reason

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mentalgear ◴[31 Oct 25 18:12 UTC] No.45774965[source]▶
While there are fascist leaders in those countries (especially Trump modelled is remodelling of the country after Orban's autocratic and corrupt Hungary), those are just 2 of 27 - so far far from the majority.

And many decisions in the EU do not allow for their veto votes anyhow - Orban's Hungary has been withhold now for years Billions of EU investments because of how the countries institutions were hollowed out by him.

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1. drstewart ◴[31 Oct 25 18:29 UTC] No.45775146[source]▶
What do you call a table of 27 with 2 Nazis at it? 27 Nazis.
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2. cassepipe ◴[31 Oct 25 18:37 UTC] No.45775232[source]▶
I call it a table of 27 with two Nazis

How do you call a Parliament with two communist representatives, a communist regime ?

3. darccio ◴[31 Oct 25 18:41 UTC] No.45775263[source]▶
That's an unfair characterisation of EU. Hungary and Slovakia didn't join under their current fascist governments. They weren't fascist when they joined in 2004.

Kicking them out isn't easy unless there is unanimity. Unfortunately EU requires this kind of quorum for the big decisions, which is kind of a safeguard to precisely avoid going full fascist for the whole EU due to a minority of countries.

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4. lm28469 ◴[31 Oct 25 21:48 UTC] No.45777080[source]▶
> They weren't fascist when they joined in 2004.

And they still aren't by any definition of the word fascism

It's 2025 we should invent new terms for new things, not everything bad is "nazi" or "fascist"

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