to summarize:
- activists don’t like the US’ dominance in tech clouds and services, obviously
- reducing the effect of US tech in europe would mean that smaller european companies have a chance at competing as well
- national security hawks don’t like having essential services depend on the US either
in the past, the US forced everyone to comply with US tech because the US was economically too powerful to deny requests to, but now that is changing because US economy is not so important internationally anymore, due to tariffs but also because US consumers are becoming poorer and therefore less important as a consumer market.
I wish there was a text transcript of this, I will check the video out after the holidays though.
TLDR: US forced everyone to pass anti-circumvention laws by threatening tariffs. Now that the US has unilaterally imposed tariffs on everyone, why not repeal those laws?
Also it doesn’t really matter how big your economy is, it’s like a first mover incentive. So small countries who were relying on aid via USAID and various other soft power schemes that DOGE cut have a huge incentive now to be the first to create the tools and markets.
Thank you!
I did check the site, but I missed it.
This really needs to get widely seen. It is indeed hopeful, in a good way.
It’s pretty wild, because this is genuinely great politics and great policy. It’s weird that folks haven’t realized this and acted on it yet. Fingers crossed.
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Yeah, it’s kinda like how you can go years without hearing any stories about someone winning a medal at the Olympics then suddenly the news is full of stories about people winning Olympic medals. Clearly it’s a conspiracy.
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CCC just wrapped up two days ago. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/infos/startpage.html
This happens every year with CCC, Defcon, and Blackhat. There are always interesting talks and you get a slew of posts from interested people.
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It’s a major hacker community centric event. The biggest in Europe. It could be that the community just likes it. 🤷♀️
Oh, hey, a Lemmy Nothing is Good has arrived.
The chaos communication congress is a non commercial volunteer run event. They don’t need marketing, because they sell out quickly.
It’s mainly that the event only just ended and the talk recordings were just released.
