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I agree but that’s a somewhat different discussion IMO.

Even if Palantir’s software was just a simple interface for a database, the fact that it’s proprietary means that there could be secret backdoors for the US Intelligence community to look at the data. There almost certainly are. That makes it an issue of national security on top of one of personal liberty.

There. Fixed it for you.

Man I hope the EU is going to wake up to software sovereignty soon.

Stuff is moving in the right direction in some places on the local level, but I would love to see a blanket ban on foreign subscription services for safety critical sectors.

Honestly, ban the use of proprietary software in any public, tax-funded organisation.

Anti-communism is a fancy name for fascism.

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I think the greatest concession made was that von der Leyen allowed Trump to frame this as a great victory for him. He has a fragile ego and always needs to look good. She is a much more diplomatic politician and allowed him to appear victorious. But the actual, realistic concessions are pretty limited.

I thought this was a pretty convincing argument why it’s not as bad for Europe as it looks https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sundown-on-the-potemkin-empire-trumps

The request created a backlash online with many disagreeing with the practice.

Let me guess, Americans?

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Trying to brand Putin’s national conservative kleptocratic regime as somehow anti-empirialistic is just bizarre … I want to see an end to the capitalist hegemony as much as the next man, but comrade: Putin isn’t it.

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As someone who was forced to start using Windows again after ten years after ten years of exclusively running Linux: Why is it like this? Everything is so crappy and slow!