I am really starting to loathe the “sovereignty” framing of open source sustainability, or data privacy, or whatever. It would be good to have a better tech community less beholden to the interests of multinational corporations, more globally distributed, etc, but when you have a problem and you think “I know what would make this better. Intense German, French, and English nationalism” now you have like… at least five problems
@glyph also it often means "what if the same thing with all the same problems as the US made thing, but made by Europeans?"
@be @glyph I'm only partially joking when I'm saying this, but the only solution may be to have services based in Antarctica.
Or to finally realize that multinational corporations need to be regulated internationally if we want to maintain the concept of nation state.