That Microsoft has restored WireGuard's ability to release updates is good, sure.

But should we really accept a situation in which Microsoft was able to take it away in the first place?

Different people will have different takes, I appreciate, but so much power concentrated in the hands of one private commercial organisation seems... unwise.

@neil

Considering the amount of investment that American tech companies are getting from anti-democracy outfits like Koch Network and from oppressive petrostate despots, it's prudent to move away from these platforms quickly.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/18/international-criminal-court-icc-judges-trump-sanctions

They're private companies. There's no such thing as civil rights or fair treatment when located in a despotic regime like Trump's.

Or #PrinceBonesaw 's regime.

https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/156691-how-sanctions-can-weaponize-us-tech-against-the-icc.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/microsoft-may-share-user-data-with-saudi-arabia-after-investing-2b-there/

Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions

Kimberly Prost and Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza vow US reprisals will not affect work of international criminal court

The Guardian