@mloxton

Meanwhile, the year is 2026 and the entire world slowly realises cooperation with American businesses is not okay. The entire world? Well, not entirely. One small country of indomitable Dutch still holds out against sanity.

It decided to place all inhabitants' tax data on American servers, granting America access to these servers while being locked out themselves.

Of course, there will be a debate to reassure the people the decision is well thought through ๐Ÿ™„

@pascaline @mloxton and they will solemnly swear our personal data will be perfectly safeโ€ฆ ๐Ÿšฎ
Until itโ€™s not. ๐Ÿ˜ž

@pascaline @mloxton which will be followed by a profound (but useless) apology.

(I can write you a script right now for how things will be played out)

Ugh.

@PalsRenate

Oh yes, we all know that script ๐Ÿ˜€

@mloxton

@PalsRenate

Yes, as always ๐Ÿ™
And of course; there will be the 'surprised and disappointed reactions' ๐Ÿ™„

@mloxton

@pascaline @mloxton
Insert the โ€˜we did everything we could..โ€™ and โ€˜who could have seen this comingโ€ฆโ€™ - nonsense. ๐Ÿซ 
@pascaline @mloxton actually, most of the world still is using American technologies and have no viable plans to get rid of them, so the Dutch are not alone, even if they lead in doing the stupid thing.

@blotosmetek

Yes.

But to willingly, while using current knowledge, hand out all tax data about all inhabitants is a bit much ๐Ÿ™ This is a new contract, a change. It isn't building on something that was already used and that they are too lazy to replace.

@mloxton

@pascaline
It is rather an astonishing move

@mloxton

It really is, it's perplexing. They really should know better. Experts have been warning against it. And yet ๐Ÿ™„