Europe is experiencing a crisis of digital autonomy. Our dependence on US big tech has been growing for decades and is now nearly total, at a time when worries about our former ally are no longer theoretical. Might we, like the International Criminal Court in The Hague, find ourselves locked out of our own mailboxes if we say something that is upsetting to the US government?
This post was written in response to an article in the Financial Times.
Why executives? Executives don’t do shit.
Well they tend to fire ICT specialists and try to replace their on prem work with US cloud services to save money in the short term while paying extra in the long run.
And that is a lot of the problem
This is a wake-up call for executives of European companies. There’s no point in muddying the waters by discussing if executives should even lead this move.
Executives don’t have wake-up calls. They don’t know what they are.
Execs solving societal problems 🤣🤣
People with the necessary knowledge have been leaving European countries for years and they don’t have the slightest incentive to come back and NOW they are like “we need independence, Murica no good anymore”, good fucking luck with that shit without the necessary talent.
