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Well, at least I can use @eurosky.social!

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What happens if Trump hits the “kill switch” and blocks Europe from American tech? No Amazon or PayPal. Netflix and YouTube blocked. The building blocks of our lives: inaccessible. But what was once an outlandish question is now less hypothetical. Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/mk8Sop4

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I imagine in practice this would be done by pressuring companies to block the EU as a whole (so you can bypass it with VPN), but I'm a bit shocked with the inclusion of Signal in the app list. I imagine they would not comply?

Signal runs on AWS, so it can just be shut down that way :-/ They're not happy about it, but it's not like planet-scale cloud providers that can do real-time video are all over.

Yeah. The first rule of weaponised interdependencies is that yo dawg I put interdependencies in your interdependencies so you could interdependent while you're interdependenting.

Surely Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and Youtube are NOT the “building blocks of our lives”? Odd set of values in that description. Finance and government / business need full digital autonomy. Those are the priorities. But life still goes on without Youtube.