A draft strategy obtained by POLITICO points to the difficulty of unwinding years of American technological dominance.

For EU citizens and residents: contact your local MEP.

The EU is a big ship and it takes time to turn around. That’s fine and understandable, but I feel they haven’t really understood the world has radicaly changed and they cannot hold onto the fairytale of US/EU cooperation, even if Trump is undone tomorrow, Hate towards us can come back in 4 or 8 years.

  • Tapionpoika@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 hour ago

    “Brussels and Washington have been joining forces for years to tame the technology giant’s global ambitions, using digital diplomacy tools to convince third countries to ditch equipment from the Shenzhen-based firm.”

    Well, Silicon Valley based has started to look a lot like Shenzhen based to me lately. And no it is not just Trump (like as it is not Putin).

  • huppakee@lemm.ee
    23·
    8 hours ago

    I’m glad at least a part of us citizens are helping to steer the ship, a lot of political parties are willing to change positions of they see they’re losing support. Germany is (slowly) ditching windows for example, the Netherlands wants to leave American cloud services, Denmark is promoting EU products. The fact that there are opposite forces working against this change, also proves it is starting to have real impact. I hope so at least.

    • albert180@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      7 hours ago

      Germany is not ditching Windows. Some federal states do, while other dumbass states go full Office365

  • Szewek@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    8 hours ago

    We should make an email/mail template if we want many people to contact their MEPs.

  • Lembot_0002@lemm.ee
    6·
    8 hours ago

    Orban: that big ship sail where I permit it. I am the king of the EU. And Fico is… important too. Yeah, we both shit on the whole Europe and they are even paying us for that!

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
    313·
    7 hours ago

    Well, yeah, the only alternative is China and Europe would rather be conquered by the US than peacefully work with communists.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      131·
      7 hours ago

      a stratified society with a single ultrapowerful dictator is not indicative that the CCP are actually communist…

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
        47·
        7 hours ago

        Whether they are really communist or communist-in-name-only is irrelevant to my point, Europe will not work with them because they claim to be communists and so it will choose to be conquered by the US instead.

        They can’t even do State-level investment in building a tech infrastructure because the Eurozone currency bloc prevents deficit spending.

        • Thorry84@feddit.nl
          6·
          4 hours ago

          Europe isn’t as brainwashed as the US when it comes to communism. The reasons the EU doesn’t want to rely as much on China is because of the human rights violations, lack of ethics, lack of social provisions, environmental issues, broken agreements and abuse of power for example.

          It’s a really nuanced and complex issue, just shouting communism bad seems like a strawman that has nothing to do with the real issues.

          Large parts of Europe have social systems that in the US would be labeled as communism. There are places that investigate and have run trials on things like UBI. There’s more to the world than communism and capitalism. And for my own two cents, both systems are deeply flawed.