And by the way, this is why I save most of my stuff in plain text files and my photos only on my hard disks... no cloud for me.

Everyone in the world is waking up to this. In the EU, they’ve just created a new “Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy” czar, and they’re busily funding the “Eurostack,” a set of open, auditable replacements for US tech silos that can run on EU-based data-centres.

But they’re about to hit a wall. Because it doesn’t matter how great those Eurostack services are. If you can’t scrape, virtualize and jailbreak US Big Tech apps, so that you can exfiltrate your data, logs, file histories and permissions, no government ministry or large company can do that work by hand. It will challenge many households, who have entrusted US tech’s walled gardens with their financial data, family photos, groupchats, family calendars, and other structures that are not easily ported without cooperation from the tech giants. They are not going to cooperate with a mass exodus from their services. They will do everything they can to impede it.

Building the Eurostack without legalizing circumvention is like building housing for East Germans in West Berlin. It doesn’t matter how cool those apartments are, they’re gonna sit empty until you tear down the wall.

Do you listen EU ?

" Move fast and break their things. Move fast and break kings. "