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Around Europe, governments and institutions are seeking to reduce their use of digital services from U.S. Big Tech companies and turning to domestic or free alternatives. The push for “digital sovereignty” is gaining attention as the Trump administration strikes an increasingly belligerent posture toward the continent, highlighted by recent tensions over Greenland that intensified fears that Silicon Valley giants could be compelled to cut off access.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Probably the only good outcome of the second Trump admin is countries moving off of USA tech. I'm here for it.

Hopefully it goes all the way & we have a closer to democratic or Political Left at least 2-Internet Markets of Things

This has been part of one of my long time problems with The EU, I cannot be more hopeful, that finally EU will not have to just regulate & punish a lot The USA corporate Tech businesses!

[–] weaponG@lemmy.world 40 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Microsoft has helped to increase Linux market share once again.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 7 hours ago

Once again is not accurate. The surge is unlike anything before. It's pretty incredible and that speaks to how badly they have fucked up. There was an article about how they are reevaluating their AI stuffs. Whether that's true or not, I don't know, but that it could be plausible says a lot.

[–] breakfastmtn@piefed.ca 15 points 14 hours ago

President Shades Strikes Back.

[–] DavorS@piefed.social 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

at the same time the government office in Germany where I work just switched completely to ZoomX. "but the servers are in Germany"...

[–] trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

You have to understand them, they need to ensure steady flow of donations from big businesses to political parties.

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 5 points 14 hours ago

Many are debating which software to use. I don't care. So long as it isn't MicroSlop or Apple or similar. It is the first big hammer strike to break up that dependency for the majority of users

[–] DarkShaggy@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Teams shouldn't even exist as it's so bad, so so bad. Zoom is fine-ish....

[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 0 points 9 hours ago

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