In case anyone was still under the assumption that US Big Tech and the Trump regime aren't one and the same:

The US has ordered its diplomats to lobby against EU attempts to regulate US tech companies 🚨

We need ethical open alternatives.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-orders-diplomats-fight-data-sovereignty-initiatives-2026-02-25/

@Gina I was reading this yesterday and thinking that the crazy privacy fools of the bygone era will have to realise that unless your jurisdiction has sovereignty, none will have privacy. Privacy can't be achieved by individual choices. All your fellow citizens have to be brought along.
@Gina things have been going downhill ever since MAGA removed "Don't Be Evil" from their manifesto (and what's worse, all their products are now out of beta)
@Gina Looking more like CCP every day
@Gina It shocks me how must sensitive data my company keeps in One drive. Like Microsoft and the US Govt aren't reading it.