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When it comes to geopolitical spheres of influence, which is what digital sovereignty is about, it doesn’t matter. Switzerland is part of Schengen, the European single market, the EFTA, ... It’s Europe.

The point is not if Switzerland is better than the US or Saudi Arabia. What is crucial is sovereignty: giving away all EU dns requests to the US by using google public dns or cloudflare is a huge loss of sovereignty for EU countries. The American government would never accept, say, if Chrome were to send American DNS queries to a non-US entity by default. EU countries shouldn’t accept that either.

Luckily in Europe we have the GDPR, so the WhatsApp changes don’t apply here. Still, great to see Signal’s user base growing!

Either the entities themselves, or good faith individuals that are so exposed to the storytelling of one of the two parties as to consider it factual truth instead of just one of the possible ways to look at the world.

That being said, I imagine that if for the US the issue is so important as to repeatedly send their warships all the way to the South China Sea for it, trying to exercise some influence over the content of a wiki page would be quite a low-hanging fruit in comparison.

Not even that subtle. For instance, declaring that Taiwan is a country despite the fact that it isn’t recognized as such by most of the world. That was such a big deal that it was met with triumph by Taiwanese media: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3948149

Don’t get me wrong, I support the cause of Taiwanese independence, but facts are facts. I also think that the Basque Country should be independent, and yet it would be factually incorrect to claim that it’s a country.

It does mean reducing their budget though, and with a potentially long lasting insurrection ahead you either need public police or private...

> This was a shameful display by the police charged with defending the rule of law in the USA

Defunding the police doesn't seem like a great idea anymore now, does it.

I do agree with you, but let's add:

3. dealing with spam is a massive PITA

All these years exporting democracy, you just might have run out

Interesting that the US would outsource tasks critical in terms of national security to an external private company even though the American Department of Defense is the largest employer in the world, public or private. Don’t they have enough people in the payroll to write their own remote management software?

Ah yeah, it's just in this context. While I'd never introduce myself by saying "hi, I'm from Europe", I feel that there are more similarities than differences between EU countries in terms of public transport, healthcare, mass shootings, education, etc. compared to the US, and I feel very privileged to be born on the right side of the Atlantic. :)

I’m only familiar with San Francisco, but every time I’m there I see that most people use Uber and Lyft instead of the bus.

You cannot compare San Francisco with Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, etc. SF is so unsafe that most people avoid public transportation and use Uber instead.

Oh man, am I glad to be European. Walk to the bar, cycle to work, take the tram if it rains. American cities built for cars are just so sad.