Could they just nationallize Amazon's infrastructure?
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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Classic US main character syndrome.
- America: We can unplug the world from the internet.
- Rest of the world: America unplugged itself from the internet.
Ah yes the Un-Internet
Yes please cut it off
No. There's no bright future in a further fragmented Internet. Although a more federated Internet would be a possibly positive outcome.
"Trump really despises Europe. He believes the EU was created solely to โrip offโ America," observed Zak Myers of the CERRE think-tank. In his view, the threat of a switch-off now appears far more plausible than it did six months ago.
True, but he's a demented rapist. Uh, which, doesn't negate what that says at all. So. Looks like we all lose.
Does this mean no US politics spam all over the internet? Where do I sing up?
Apart from that, its time for EU to stand up I guess, invest and bring jobs too.
You'll get DOUBLE the US politics spam and like it!
There are billionaires wanting to see numbers go up! Won't somebody think of the billionaires?!
Do it, you cowards
European Governments are major supporters of USA corporations. Nothing new.
But the USA would never do that!
They only play by the rules, and they're the nice guys. Not the kind that would suddenly tell their partners they could go funk themselves because they changed the deal and that we should pray they don't alter it any further.
They would not.
I hate our government so much
I hate our government so much
Hate is of little help, I'm afraid.
The question would rather be how such a sad situation could happen? Alas, I fear answering to that question may not be as pleasing as blaming one guy, no matter how poorly educated and ill-mannered he is, or even a group of people (and btw, not just in the USA many Western countries are playing a very similar sick game). And trying to fix that will take a lot more work, and a lot more time too, than just putting someone else in charge.
US companies are all about profit. If they are ever pressured to cut Europe off, they will just buy themselves a new president and Congress. Don't ever think that the politicians are the ones in charge.
Yes and No - It does work like that, and it also doesn't really work like that.
As with all things in life, the actual answer is, "It depends."
Just make a copy of the Internet and host it local.
I agree and sincerely hope so.
But pessimistic me also can see them decide the EU is too much of a pain, which it indeed is, and that they could make as much if not more money with their new 'best allies/customers/friends' (which happen to also have a lot of money, like the EU, if not more) in those somewhat less democratic countries with a lot less rules... And who would care about democracy as it's obviously its way out, in the USA as every where else.
The EU should definitely host their own computing infrastructure and Internet backbone. If an irrational fear of US companies suddenly becoming patriotic is what gets the gears in motion, then so be it.
Forgot your "/s"
Probably because, I'm not a fan of using highlighters
But have you thought about autistic gen Zers
I mean... have you ever seen this happen in the last, say, 5 months?